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Gustav Theodor Fechner
(1801–87)German psychophysicist, and one of the founders of experimental psychology. Fechner studied physiology, but turned to physics which he taught at Leipzig. Philosophically Fechner defended a ...
sensation
As conventionally distinguished from perception, sensation is the initial physiological process of detecting an immediate external sensory stimulus prior to its interpretation and categorization. ...
size–weight illusion
A powerful cognitive illusion that causes approximately 98 per cent of people to judge an object to be heavier than another object of the same weight but much larger size when the two are lifted by ...
social psychology
The branch of psychology devoted to social behaviour in all its forms, including altruism, attitudes, social compliance, conformity, obedience to authority, person perception, attribution processes, ...
touch
The sense that enables the texture of objects and substances to be perceived. Touch receptors occur in the skin, being concentrated in the tips of the finger in humans (see Meissner's corpuscles).
Weber, Ernst Heinrich Quick reference
A Dictionary of Scientists
(1795–1878) German physiologist and psychologist
Weber was the eldest of three brothers who all made important contributions to science. He was born at Wittenberg in Germany and ...
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Weber, Ernst Heinrich Reference library
Richard L. Gregory
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
(1795–1878).
German physiologist, born at Wittenberg; professor of anatomy and later of physiology at Leipzig. He is celebrated for developing methods of measuring the ...
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Wilhelm Wundt
(1832–1920). German philosopher, physiologist, and psychologist who held chairs of philosophy at Zurich and Leipzig.He is sometimes taken to be the founder of experimental psychology; his ...
