Ancient Theories of Vision

The Western Dark Ages

Alhazen (10th/11th Century)

The Renaissance and 17th Century Physics Context

Kepler (16th/17th Century)
Isaac Newton (17th/18th Century)

18th Century Philosophy

19th Century Psychophysics - Fechner and Weber

Helmholtz (19th Century Psychophysics)

Wundt and the Birth of Experimental Psychology

Titchener (20th Century Vision)

Introduction of Gestalt Psychology

Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Organisation

Behaviourism and its Consequences for Vision

Gibson's Ecological Optics

Gregory's Constructivism

Enduring Influences of Gestalt, Gibson and Gregory

Phrenology

Galton (1822-1911)

Spearman (1863-1945)

Binet (1857-1911) and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test

Intelligence Quotient

Abuse of Intelligence Tests - Immigration, Racism and Eugenics

Cryil Burt's 11-Plus

Issues in Intelligence Testing

Multiple Intelligences

Pythagoras

Hippocrates

Galen

Middle Ages and Personality

Behaviourism and Personality

Freud's Theory of Personality

Carl Jung

Allport

Cattell

Eysenck

Big Five Traits

Definitions: Multifinality and Equifinality

Behaviourism - Locke's Blank Slate Theory

History of Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology - Galton's Twin Studies

Bouchard's Minnesota Twin Family Study

Nature and Nurture in Male Aggression and Klinefelter Syndrome

Epigenetics

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Evolution Before Darwin:
Leclerc (1707-1788)

Evolution Before Darwin:
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

Evolution Before Darwin:
Lamarck

Pavlov (1849-1936)

Bechterev (1957-1927)

Watson (1878-1958)

Skinner (1904-1990)

William James (1842-1910)

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909)

Cognition During Behaviourism - Bartlett

The Cognitive Revolution

Language in the Cognitive Revolution

Information Processing and Short-Term Memory

Historical Cases of Brain Injuries and the Use of Single Case Study Methods

Dissociations and Double Dissociations

Double Dissociation of Short- and Long-Term Memory - H.M. and K.F.

Double Dissociation of Central and Peripheral Visual Agnosia - HJA and Dennis

Double Dissociation in Face Perception (Bruce & Young)

History of Brain Mapping

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Computerised Tomography Scanning

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: How it Works

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Subtraction Logic (Donders, 1800s)

Subtraction Logic in fMRI: Object Recognition

Electroencephalogram

Single Cell Electrophysiology