PSY 2893 - History of Psychology Exam 1 Study Guide - May Interim 2022

Broca - discovered Broca's area in the left side of the brain responsible for speaking Explain Freud's three-part structure of the mind (nature of each structure, guiding principle) - Explain the basic post-Freudian developments of Adler, Jung, and Horney - Fechner (3) - Expanded Weber's work to focus on sensation intensityCame up with response compression - equal differences are perceived as less different the higher the starting intensityAllowed for development of sensation intensity scales Flourens (4) - Deliberately tested the localization assumption of phrenologyPhrenology haterFound evidence for distributed processing (not localized)Claims were overgeneralized (localization does exist - but not in the form phrenology claimed) Gall (4) - the pioneer in brain dissection techniques; endorsed brain localization; made several anatomical discoveries; remembered mostly for phrenology; did not use random samples Helmholtz (4) - Research on frog legsNerve conductance (speed) could be measuredAbout 165-330 feet per secondNerve signals contained chemical particles, not immaterial spirits or simple electricit