Concept
Experimental psychology
Overview
Experimental psychology is the work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, including (among others) sensation, perception, memory, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion; developmental processes, social psychology, and the neural substrates of all of these.
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While the need of application of ideas gained in study is acknowledged by all the more successful methods of instruction, the exercises in application are sometimes treated as devices for fixing what has already been learned and for getting greater practical skill in its manipulation. These results are genuine and not to be despised. But practice in applying what has been gained in study ought primarily to have an…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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Experimental psychology is a term used with a considerable laxity of content; and so too is that of physiological psychology, or psycho-physics. And the laxity mainly arises because there is an uncertainty as to what is principal and what secondary in the inquiry.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
States what Experimental psychology is; opens on Experimental psychology.
No general description of the methods of experimental psychology would be instructive to one unfamiliar with the instances of their application, so we will waste no words upon the attempt. _The principal fields of experimentation_ so far have been: 1) the connection of conscious states with their physical conditions, including the whole of brain-physiology, and the recent minutely cultivated physiology of the…
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
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Philosophers who discussed Experimental psychology
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Steven Pinker
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- William James
- Samuel Alexander
- Zenon Pylyshyn
- Joseph Maréchal
- Branislav Petronijević
- Gerard Heymans
- Adolph Stöhr
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Emotion
- Cognition
- Falsifiability
- Operant conditioning
- Problem solving
- John Dewey
- Jürgen Habermas
- Learning
- Mind
- University
- Gustav Fechner
- Conformity
- Neuroscience
- Proprioception
- Nervous system
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Psychology
- Motivation
- Sense
- Perception
- Structuralism (psychology)
- Pamphlet
- Statistics
Place in the tradition
Part of Mental representation.