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The book "Principles of Physiological Psychology" was published in 1973. T/F

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False

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Wundt believed the mind actively organizes the content of consciousness. T/F

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True

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Wundt used the term "elements" to suggest psychology was like the natural sciences. T/F

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True

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Wilhelm Wundt is credited as the founder of Psychology. T/F

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True

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The subject matter of Wundt's psychology was consciousness. T/F

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True

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In 1867, Wundt offered the first course ever given in ____.

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physiological psychology

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Wundt's system is most accurately called ____.

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experimental psychology

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Wundt's productivity as a writer can be quantified by his output, which averaged ____.

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2.2 pages a day over 50 years

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Wilhelm Wundt is the ____ of psychology as a discipline.

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founder

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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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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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Which of the following statements is true of Wundt's cultural psychology?

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it dealt with various stages of human mental development.

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Wundt's influence was so widely felt that, as a tribute, his lab was later replicated in ____.

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Japan and Russia

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The cultural psychology of Wundt examined evidence from ____.

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examinations of languages, myths, customs, laws and morals

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What book marks the "literary birth" of the new science of psychology?

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Fechner's "Elements of Psychophysics" AND Wundt's "Contributions to the Theory of Sensory Perception"

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Wundt trained his subjects how to introspect properly. T/F

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True

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According to Wundt, the 2 types of conscious experience are "mediate" and immediate." T/F

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True

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The word "voluntarism" is derived from the word volition. T/F

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True

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Wundt believed that the content of consciousness passively self-organized. T/F

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False

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A mediate experience precedes immediate experience. T/F

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False

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For Wundt, the difference between sensations and images was ____.

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nonexistent

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Wundt's observers used introspection to report ____.

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judgements about the size and intensity of physical stimuli.

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Wundt classified sensations according to which characteristics?

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intensity, duration, and sense modality

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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, the subject matter of experimental psychology was consciousness. T/F

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True

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Wundt's theory of feelings was based on ____.

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his own introspections

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According to Wundt, ____ has/have "to do with objective masses, forces, and energies" while ____ has/have "to do with subjective values and ends."

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physical measurements; psychical measurements

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

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it was destroyed in allied bombing raids in World War II

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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 a reason for decline of Wundt's approach to psychology?

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Wundt's theories were difficult to understand. Therefore, he attracted very few students to his work.

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If you look at a rose and observe, "The rose is red," you are observing the ______.

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mediate experience

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Which statement best describes the basic content of the Original Source Material by Wundt?

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Psychology is concerned with how the active powers of the mind synthesize mental elements into states of consciousness.

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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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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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Wundt's modification of introspection was the ____.

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use of the experimental controls

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According to Wundt, the stimulation of a sense organ sufficiently to have the nerve impulse reach the brain defines a(n) ____.

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sensation

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For Wundt, feelings are ____.

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based on three dimensions including pleasure/displeasure

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Wundt's most important contribution to psychology was ____.

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all of the above

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The law of psychic resultants governs ____.

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the organization of mental elements

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According to Wundt, psychology should be concerned with the study of ____.

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immediate experience

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Introspection as used by Wundt is also called ____.

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internal perception

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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's doctrine of apperception refers to ____.

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the process of organizing mental elements into a whole

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Which of the following is NOT one of Wundt's goals for his psychology?

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to identify the principles that govern the synthesis of those elements into higher cognitive processes such as learning.

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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

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False

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Kulpe focused his research on mental processes. T/F

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True

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Stump's phenomenology was similar to Wundt's introspection. T/F

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True

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Kulpe had his research subjects report their mental experiences before they occurred. T/F

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False

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Ebbinghaus demonstrated a method to study learning and memory. T/F

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True

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Like Wundt, Brentano advocated study of the content of consciousness. T/F

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False

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Brentano's system of psychology was called ____ psychology.

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Act

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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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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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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 lab.

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Ebbinghaus measured the rate of human learning by ____.

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counting the number of repetitions for one perfect reproduction of the material

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Ebbinghaus and König argued that psychology and physiology ____.

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are inseparable halves of a new great double science

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What may be "the most brilliant single investigation in the history of experimental psychology"?

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Ebbinghaus's "On Memory"

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The psychological study of music was pioneered by ____.

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Stumpf

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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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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.

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sentence-completion exercise

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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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In Wundt's lab, introspection was used to assess

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feelings

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Which if 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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Wundt's doctrine of apperception refers to

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the process of organizing mental elements into a whole

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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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Herman Ebbinghaus

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Ebbinghaus dedicated "the Principles of Psychology" to

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Fechner

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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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Systematic experimental introspection involves

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retrospection and the performance of a complex task

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Fechner is the founder of psychology as a formal discipline. T/F

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False

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The components of the tridimensional theory are pleasantness, brightness, and contrast. T/F

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False

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Paramount among the factors that contributed to the demise of Wundtian psychology was WW I and the economic crisis that followed it. T/F

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False

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As Wundt stated in the Original Source Material on the Law of Psychic Resultants and the Principle of Creative Synthesis from the Outline of Psychology (1896), the ____ "finds its expression in the fact that every psychical compound shows attributes which may...be understood from the attributes of its elements...but which are by no means to be looked upon as the mere sum of the attributes of these elements.

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Law of Psychic Resultants

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Stumph's phenomenology was similar to Wundt's introspection.

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True

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While conducting his research, Ebbinghaus used ____.

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A single subject

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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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When Ebbinghaus compared the speed of memorizing lists of nonsense syllables versus stanzas of a poem he found that ____.

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meaningless material is 9 times harder to learn than meaningful material

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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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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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Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874) was the major contribution to psychology from ____.

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Brentano

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As his measure of learning, Ebbinghaus adapted a method from ____.

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the Associationists

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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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For Brentano, the primary research method was

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Observation

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