Who is the scientist that observed that decapitated animals would continue to move for some time when stimulated in various nerve endings?
Who is Marshall Hall?
100
Which country is credited with the initial applications of experimental psychology?
What is Germany?
100
What is the technique for determining the function of a given part of an animal's brain by removing or destroying it and observing the resulting behavior changes?
What is Extirpation?
100
Helmholtz's psychology ranked third among his areas of scientific contribution. The first two were..
What is Physiology and Physics?
100
What is the threshold at which two points of stimulation can be distinguished as such?
What is Two-point threshold?
200
Who is the professor of natural history who destroyed parts of the brain and spinal cord in pigeons to observe the physiological consequences?
Who is Pierre Flourens?
200
These two countries favored a deductive and mathematical approach to science--which did not include psychology as a science.
What is England(UK) and France?
200
What is the posthumous examination of brain structures to detect damaged areas assumed to be responsible for behavioral conditions that existed before the person died?
What is Clinical Method?
200
What is device that Helmholtz invented that is still used to examine the retina and allowed possible diagnosis and treatment for retinal disorders?
What is the Opthalmoscope?
200
What is the smallest difference that can be detected between two physical stimuli?
What is just noticeable difference?
300
Who was the surgeon that found the lesion on the brain attributing to a man's inability to speak intelligibly?
Who is Paul Broca?
300
Immigration after what war lead to an influx of the number of psychologists in the United States?
What is World War II?
300
What is the technique for exploring the cerebral cortex with weak electric current to observe motor responses?
What is Electrical stimulation?
300
What did Helmholtz identify when he stimulated a motor nerve and the attached muscle in the leg of a frog?
What are neural impulses?
300
What is the point of sensitivity below which no sensations can be detected and above which sensations can be experienced?
What is Absolute threshold?
400
What pair of scientists developed the observation technique of electrical stimulation?
Who is Gustav Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig?
400
What is the term associated with sophisticated and mechanical contraptions, which were built to imitate human movement and action?
What is the automata?
400
What is study that proposed that the shape of a person's skull reveals his or her intellectual and emotional characteristics?
What is Phrenology?
400
What area of study did Helmholtz contribute with his investigation of external eye muscles and the mechanics by which internal eye muscles focus their lens?
What is vision?
400
What is the point of sensitivity at which the least amount of change in a stimulus gives rise to a change in sensation?
What is the Differential Threshold?
500
What scientist's work confirmed the existence of both white and gray matter in the brain, and the nerve fibers connecting the halves of the brain?
Who is Franz Josef Gall?
500
What was the first university in the United States in Baltimore, Maryland that was based on the German model for scientific researching?
What is Johns Hopkins University?
500
Disapproving phrenology, which scientist found that the shape of the skull did not match the contours of the underlying brain tissue?
Who is Pierre Flourens?
500
Name the field of study in which Helmholtz studied the perception of tones, the nature of harmony and discord, and the problem of resonance.
What is audition?
500
What is the scientific study of the reasons between mental and physical processes?