RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
True. Messages carried by optic nerves are different from auditory nerves and vice verse.
|
|
|
False. All nerve energies carry the same impulses and the same messages.
|
|
|
Either A or B
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies has been and continues to be enormously influential in the physiology, psychology, and philosophy of perception. In simple terms, the Doctrine states that we directly perceive in the first instance the activity of our nerves, rather than properties in the external world.
Detailed explanation-2: -The law of specific nerve energies, first proposed by Johannes Peter Müller in 1835, is that the nature of perception is defined by the pathway over which the sensory information is carried. Hence, the origin of the sensation is not important.
Detailed explanation-3: -The neuron doctrine is the universally accepted concept that the nervous system is made up of discrete individual cells, the neurons, supported by astrocytes and by other glial cells. This discovery was due to the brilliant neuroanatomical work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Finger, 2000).
Detailed explanation-4: -The doctrine of specific nerve energies states that: what a person experiences depends on which nerve was stimulated.