Question 1

Titchner defined \"mind\" as the \"sum of a person\'s experiences accumulated over a lifetime.\" T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

\"Association\" was the mechanism of Titchner\'s Structuralism. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Titchner embraced Wundt\'s \"apperception.\" T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

The \"stimulus error\" was mistakenly eating the stimulus. T/F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Titchner was in favor of child development psychology. T/F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

While Wundt emphasized ____ and ____ reports during introspection, Titchener used ____ and ____ introspective reports.

Accepted Answer

objective, quantitative; subjective, qualitative

Question 7

Titchener excluded women from the meetings of the Titchener Experimentalists because women:

Accepted Answer

were too pure to smoke

Question 8

When Titchener returned to Oxford with his doctorate from Wundt, his colleagues ____.

Accepted Answer

were skeptical of the use of scientific approaches to philosophical questions.

Question 9

The sum of our experiences as they exist at a particular moment is Titchener\'s definition of ____.

Accepted Answer

consciousness

Question 10

Titchener\'s manner with his students during lectures was one of ____.

Accepted Answer

formality

Question 11

One of the main reasons that Titchener\'s thought was believed to closely parallel that of Wundt was that Titchener ____.

Accepted Answer

translated Wundt\'s books from German into English

Question 12

The school of structuralism includes the work and/or systems of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Titchener

Question 13

____ was the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. degree in psychology.

Accepted Answer

Margaret Floy Washburn

Question 14

Who defined the subject matter of psychology as being a conscious experience as that experience is dependent on the person who is actually experiencing it?

Accepted Answer

Titchener

Question 15

\"Images\" are mental experiences that arise from our memories. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Titchner eventually dropped the concept of mental elements. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Titchner wanted to discover the \"adams\" of the mind. T/F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

Structuralism died along with Titchner. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Margaret Washburn was Titchner\'s landlady. T/F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Titchener\'s view of the field of psychology was ____.

Accepted Answer

too limited to embrace new york and dimensions

Question 21

A century before Titchener\'s work the philosopher ____ wrote that the act of introspection itself altered the conscious experience being studied.

Accepted Answer

Kant

Question 22

Which of the following is NOT one of the three essential problems for psychology, according to Titchener?

Accepted Answer

to study how these components were synthesized into higher-level processes

Question 23

Titchener\'s research led him to conclude that affective states had only ____ dimension(s); namely ____.

Accepted Answer

one; pleasure/displeasure

Question 24

In terms of describing the method of introspection, Titchener ____.

Accepted Answer

had difficulty defining exactly what he meant

Question 25

The English physician ____ wrote \"due to the extent of the pathology of mind, self-report is hardly to be trusted.\"

Accepted Answer

Maudsley

Question 26

By the 1920s the term used by Titchener for his system of psychology was ____.

Accepted Answer

existential

Question 27

In his treatment of women, Titchener ____.

Accepted Answer

demonstrated both support of and obstruction of women in psychology

Question 28

Which of the following statements is true about the status of the introspective method in modern psychology?

Accepted Answer

Several areas of modern psychology, such as clinical and industrial/organizational, use the introspective method.

Question 29

The idea of developing an introspective language was ____.

Accepted Answer

never realized

Question 30

Who was Titchener\'s first doctoral student?

Accepted Answer

Washburn

Question 31

Titchner\'s definition of the appropriate subject matter of psychology is

Accepted Answer

conscious experience

Question 32

Titchener vigorously cautioned experimental psychologists about the stimulus error, that is, about ______.

Accepted Answer

describing the observed object rather than the experience of it

Question 33

If you described the test you are now taking as being on paper, you would not be giving a true introspective report of your conscious experience according to Titchener. In introspection, to use everyday words such as \"paper\" is to _______.

Accepted Answer

commit the stimulus error

Question 34

Who said psychology was NOT in the business of curing sick minds?

Accepted Answer

Titchener

Question 35

The influence of mechanism on Titchener is exemplified in his

Accepted Answer

use of chemistry term reagents instead of observers

Question 36

For Titchener, distinct sensations combined with others to form

Accepted Answer

perceptions and ideas

Question 37

Which of the Titchener\'s basic elements of consciousness does not possess clearness?

Accepted Answer

affective states

Question 38

Titchener\'s research led him to conclude that affective states had only ____ dimensions; namely

Accepted Answer

one; pleasure/displeasure

Question 39

When Titchener died, the era of structuralism

Accepted Answer

collapsed

Question 40

Titchener\'s graduate student observers were instructed to ignore certain classes of words called

Accepted Answer

meaning words

Question 41

With Titchener\'s structuralism as an idea to oppose, psychology

Accepted Answer

moved far beyond his initial boundaries

Question 42

Titchener\'s focus was on the synthesis of elements of consciousness into higher -order cognitive processes.  T/F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 43

The Titchener Experimentalists would admit women into three meeting on th condition that they could smoke a entire cigar. T/F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

Among Titchener\'s most influential works on the direction of the new psychology in the US was \"The Animal Mind\" T/F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 45

More women completed doctoral degrees with Titchener than with any other psychologist of that period. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

One of Titchener\'s more influential books was \"Elements of Psychophysics\" T/F

Accepted Answer

False

Question 47

Titchener distinguished consciousness, which is momentary, from mind, which is a lifelong accumulation of experiences. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

Titchener adopted Kulpe\'s term for introspection, \"systematic experimental introspection\" T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

Titchener\'s system was marked by mechanism. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

Later in his career, Titchener adopted the designation \"existential psychology\" for his system. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 51

When Titchener died, the era of structuralism collapsed. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 52

Kant had attacked the method of introspection a century before Titchener\'s work. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

Question 53

By Titchener\'s later years, psychology was moving quickly beyond his views. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

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