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Külpe opposed Wundt by claiming that conscious thought processes can be carried out without the presence of sensations or feelings. Külpe's view is known as

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imageless thought

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Wundt's term voluntarism reflects his emphasis on the

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power of the will to organize the contents of the mind

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Other than Stumpf's research, his greatest influence on psychology may have been

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educating the founders of Gestalt psychology

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The first system or school of thought in psychology was called

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voluntarism by Wundt

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Wundt classified sensations according to which characteristics?

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intensity, duration, and sense modality

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In his early work when he was his own experimental subject, the 29-year-old Wilhelm Wundt found that he could

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not pay attention to two things at once

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While Wundt had argued that learning and memory could not be studied experimentally, who soon proved him wrong?

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Ebbinghaus

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Titchener noted that the first significant advance in the study of learning since Aristotle was

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the development of the nonsense syllable

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The subject matter of psychology is the act of experiencing, according to

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Brentano

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Stumpf's method of observation was

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phenomenology

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Research suggests that many psychology historians consider ____ to be the most important psychologist of all time.

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Wundt

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Which of the following are the three dimensions of Wundt's tridimensional theory of feelings?

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pleasure/displeasure; tension/relaxation; excitement/depression.

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Which of the following is NOT one of Wundt's experimental conditions?

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Observers must be able to describe the qualitative aspects of their experiences.

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Stumpf and Wundt engaged in a bitter fight over the topic of

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the introspection of tones

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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

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apperception

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In Wundt's laboratory, introspection was used to assess

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immediate experience

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Wundt's theory of feelings was based on

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his own introspections

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For Wundt, the subject matter of psychology was

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consciousness

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Which of the following methods is defined as "the examination of experience as it occurred without any attempt to reduce experience to elementary components."

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phenomenology

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In 1867, Wundt offered the first course ever given in

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physiological psychology

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Ebbinghaus' curve of forgetting shows that

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material is forgotten rapidly in the first hours after learning and then the forgetting slows down

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Act psychology, in contrast to Wundt's approach, claimed that psychology should

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study mental processes or functions and not mental structure

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Wundt's system is most accurately identified as

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experimental psychology

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Given that many of his research findings remain valid today, ____ can be seen as more influential than ____

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Ebbinghaus; Wundt

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Ebbinghaus is important for the history of psychology because he

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successfully challenged Wundt's claim that higher mental processes, such as learning and memory, could not be studied in the laboratory

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Brentano's system of psychology was called ____ psychology

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Act

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Wundt argued that cognitive processes such as learning and memory could not be studied by experimental methods because

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they were influenced by language and aspects thereof

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This person was influenced by Fechner's rigid and systematic use of measurement in developing his own methods for researching higher level cognitive processes.

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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For Brentano, the primary research method was

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observation

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Wundtian psychology in Germany was slow to develop because

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it was not seen as having practical value

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For Wundt, feelings are

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based on three dimensions including pleasure/displeasure

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According to Wundt, there were two elementary forms of experience, namely

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sensation and feelings

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The fundamental purpose of creating nonsense syllables was to

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control for previous learning

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The ultimate fate of Wundt's laboratory at Leipzig was that it

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was destroyed by allied bombing raids in World War II

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Wundt's modification of introspection was the

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use of experimental controls

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The significance of Ebbinghaus's work is in his

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rigorous use of experimental control and his quantitative analysis of data

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Wundt established psychology as distinct from philosophy primarily in terms of its

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use of the experimental method

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____ work on ____ was the first "venture into a truly psychological problem area" rather than on physiology.

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Ebbinghaus'; learning

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Wundt's doctrine of apperception refers to

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the process of organizing mental elements into a whole

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