| Front | George Elias Muller “The Experimentalist” |
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| Back | Training: Leipzig university; history & philosophy; after Army studied psychology; Phd in philosophy under Lotze Accomplishments: • Published 1st psych journal “Mind”; • 1st to study ‘attitude’; • psychophysics (perception) advanced principles of attention, sensitivity, discrimination, ect • pioneered memory measurement (reaction time); • discovered retroactive inhibition (old memory interferes with new memory/ learning); • studied color vision (brain adds gray to retinally induced colors) • Five Psychophysical axoms: (greatly influenced Gestalt Psy) 1. every state of consciousness is based upon material event 2. similarity/ difference of sensation corresponds to a psychophysiological difference 3. change of sensations corresponds to psychophysiological change 4. sensation can be increased or decreased, lower limit is 0 5. production of intermediate levels of intensity through mixture of extremes Criticisms of others: bad temper; wrote nasty critiques; rejected Gestalt; rejected metaphysics Criticisms by others: N/A Systems: Psychophysics |
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