The book "Principles of Physiological Psychology" was published in 1973. T/F
False
Wundt believed the mind actively organizes the content of consciousness. T/F
True
Wundt used the term "elements" to suggest psychology was like the natural sciences. T/F
True
Wilhelm Wundt is credited as the founder of Psychology. T/F
True
The subject matter of Wundt's psychology was consciousness. T/F
True
In 1867, Wundt offered the first course ever given in ____.
physiological psychology
Wundt's system is most accurately called ____.
experimental psychology
Wundt's productivity as a writer can be quantified by his output, which averaged ____.
2.2 pages a day over 50 years
Wilhelm Wundt is the ____ of psychology as a discipline.
founder
Wundt established psychology as distinct from philosophy primarily in terms of its ____.
use of the experimental method
In his early work when he was his own experimental subject, the 29-year-old Wilhelm Wundt found that he could ____.
not pay attention to two things at once
Which of the following statements is true of Wundt's cultural psychology?
it dealt with various stages of human mental development.
Wundt's influence was so widely felt that, as a tribute, his lab was later replicated in ____.
Japan and Russia
The cultural psychology of Wundt examined evidence from ____.
examinations of languages, myths, customs, laws and morals
What book marks the "literary birth" of the new science of psychology?
Fechner's "Elements of Psychophysics" AND Wundt's "Contributions to the Theory of Sensory Perception"
Wundt trained his subjects how to introspect properly. T/F
True
According to Wundt, the 2 types of conscious experience are "mediate" and immediate." T/F
True
The word "voluntarism" is derived from the word volition. T/F
True
Wundt believed that the content of consciousness passively self-organized. T/F
False
A mediate experience precedes immediate experience. T/F
False
For Wundt, the difference between sensations and images was ____.
nonexistent
Wundt's observers used introspection to report ____.
judgements about the size and intensity of physical stimuli.
Wundt classified sensations according to which characteristics?
intensity, duration, and sense modality
Wundtian psychology in Germany was slow to develop because ____.
it was not seen as having practical value
For Wundt, the subject matter of experimental psychology was consciousness. T/F
True
Wundt's theory of feelings was based on ____.
his own introspections
According to Wundt, ____ has/have "to do with objective masses, forces, and energies" while ____ has/have "to do with subjective values and ends."
physical measurements; psychical measurements
The ultimate fate of Wundt's laboratory at Leipzig was that it ____.
it was destroyed in allied bombing raids in World War II
Research suggests that many psychology historians consider ____ to be the most important psychologist of all time.
Wundt
Which of the following are the three dimensions of Wundt's tridimensional theory of feelings?
pleasure/displeasure; tension/relaxation; excitement/depression
Which of the following is NOT a reason for decline of Wundt's approach to psychology?
Wundt's theories were difficult to understand. Therefore, he attracted very few students to his work.
If you look at a rose and observe, "The rose is red," you are observing the ______.
immediate experience ***** wrong
Which statement best describes the basic content of the Original Source Material by Wundt?
Psychology is concerned with how the active powers of the mind synthesize mental elements into states of consciousness.
The Gestalt psychologists' best-known tenet is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This same tenet was alleged in Wundt's principle of ____.
apperception
Wundt's term voluntarism reflects his emphasis on the ____.
power of the will to organize the contents of the mind
Wundt's modification of introspection was the ____.
use of the experimental controls
According to Wundt, the stimulation of a sense organ sufficiently to have the nerve impulse reach the brain defines a(n) ____.
sensation
For Wundt, feelings are ____.
based on three dimensions including pleasure/displeasure
Wundt's most important contribution to psychology was ____.
all of the above
The law of psychic resultants governs ____.
the organization of mental elements
According to Wundt, psychology should be concerned with the study of ____.
immediate experience
Introspection as used by Wundt is also called ____.
internal perception
The first system or school of thought in psychology was called ____.
voluntarism by Wundt
Wundt's doctrine of apperception refers to ____.
the process of organizing mental elements into a whole
Which of the following is NOT one of Wundt's goals for his psychology?
to identify the principles that govern the synthesis of those elements into higher cognitive processes such as learning.
In the Original Source Material, Wundt states that ,"the law of psychical resultants expresses a principle that is the opposite of the principle of creative synthesis". T/F
False
Kulpe focused his research on mental processes. T/F
True
Stump's phenomenology was similar to Wundt's introspection. T/F
True
Kulpe had his research subjects report their mental experiences before they occurred. T/F
False
Ebbinghaus demonstrated a method to study learning and memory. T/F
True
Like Wundt, Brentano advocated study of the content of consciousness. T/F
False
Brentano's system of psychology was called ____ psychology.
Act
Other than Stumpf's research, his greatest influence on psychology may have been ____.
educating the founders of Gestalt psychology
Act psychology, in contrast to Wundt's approach, claimed that psychology should ____.
study mental processes or functions and not mental structure
Ebbinghaus is important for the history of psychology because he ____.
successfully challenged Wundt's claim that higher mental processes, such as learning and memory, could not be studied in the lab.
Ebbinghaus measured the rate of human learning by ____.
counting the number of repetitions for one perfect reproduction of the material
Ebbinghaus and König argued that psychology and physiology ____.
are inseparable halves of a new great double science
What may be "the most brilliant single investigation in the history of experimental psychology"?
Ebbinghaus's "On Memory"
The psychological study of music was pioneered by ____.
Stumpf
Titchener noted that the first significant advance in the study of learning since Aristotle was ____.
the development of the nonsense syllable
Ebbinghaus developed a(n) ____ considered by some to be the first successful test of higher mental process and used today, in modified form, in cognitive ability tests.
sentence-completion exercise
Wundt argued that cognitive processes such as learning and memory could NOT be studied by experimental methods because .....
they were influenced by language and aspects thereof
In Wundt's lab, introspection was used to assess
feelings
Which if the following is NOT one of Wundt's experimental conditions?
Observers must be able to describe the qualitative aspects of their experiences
Wundt's doctrine of apperception refers to
the process of organizing mental elements into a whole
This person was influenced by Fechner's rigid and systematic use of measurement in developing his own methods for researching higher level cognitive processes.
Herman Ebbinghaus
Ebbinghaus dedicated "the Principles of Psychology" to
Fechner
The subject matter of psychology is the act of experiencing, according to
Brentano
Systematic experimental introspection involves
retrospection and the performance of a complex task
Fechner is the founder of psychology as a formal discipline. T/F
False
The components of the tridimensional theory are pleasantness, brightness, and contrast. T/F
False
Paramount among the factors that contributed to the demise of Wundtian psychology was WW I and the economic crisis that followed it. T/F
False