How, according to Sechenov, should psychological phenomena be studied?
Sechenov denied that thoughts cause behavior. He supported the notion that external stimulation causes all types of behavior. He explained that behavior is triggered by external stimulation.
He introduced the concept of inhibition in his work ‘Reflexes of the Brain’. His discovery of inhibitory mechanisms in brain led to a conclusion that psychology can be studied in terms of physiology.
His book was previously known as ‘An Attempt to Bring Physiological Bases into Mental Processes’. Later, the title of the book was changed to ‘Reflexes of the Brain’. Experiments done proved his notion.
Weber found that on stimulating frog’s vagus nerve, frog’s heart beats slowly. This was interpreted that increasing the activity of one part of the neuromuscular system resulted in decrease in the activity.