Biological Perspective Studies

How well does biological psychology explain others and you Galvani 1791 It was through the accidental overlap of these two seemingly dissimilar areas of scientific effort that Galvani made his greatest discoveries He noticed that the dissected legs of frogs in his laboratory seemed to jump to life under various conditions For instance when one of his assistants placed a scalpel against the exposed nerve of one specimen which was sitting on a table previously used in electrostatic experiments the legs of the frog suddenly kicked In a similar event when Galvani used a scalpel made of steel to cut the leg of a frog anchored on a brass hook the leg visibly twitched Based on such unusual observations Galvani concluded that there was a type of electrical fluid inherent in the body which he dubbed 

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