Flashcards and Answers – Chapter 4: The New Psychology

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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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