Recordings from a series of lectures by Professor Michael Billig (2012) from the 'Historical and Conceptual Issues' module, taught at Loughborough University. The module formed part of the degree of Social Psychology BSc.
00:00 Lecture 12: Francis Galton (1822-1911)
(Charles Darwin, unity versus diversity, differences, survival of the fittest, a child prodigy, an adult polymath, race and racism, Hereditary Genius (1869), English Men of Science (1874), questionnaires, race characteristics, measurement and statistics, correlation, eugenics, racial politics)
57:57 Lecture 13: Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
(Experimental method, observation, science of experience, biases of observation, Immanuel Kant, measuring sensation, Ernst Weber, perception of differences, Gustav Fechner, introspection, schema, experiments, psychology of behaviour, apperception, folk psychology)
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