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No anesthesia is needed when using the clinical method T or F

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T

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The "personal equation" refers to personality type T or F

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F

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"Extirpation" is a way to investigate brain function by removing parts of the brain. T or F

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T

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Motor nerve fibers send messages from the muscles to the brain T or F

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F

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Philosophers and physiologists were the precursors of modern psychology T or F

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T

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____ systematically destroyed parts of the brain using extirpation.

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Flourens

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Why was David Kinebrook fired?

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His observations differed from the observations of his boss.

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Who's research would support the argument that there is no such thing as objective observation?

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Bessel

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In the United States, the _____ brothers had a profitable and extensive business selling phrenology readings.

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Fowler

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Johannes Muller's most influential publications was _____.

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The Handbook of Physiology of Mankind

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Until the work of ____, experimentation was not the preferred method of research in physiology

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J. Muller

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____ created phrenology, which proposed that the topography of a person's skull revealed his or her intellectual and emotional characteristics.

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Gall

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The ____ method is described as a type of posthumous extirpation

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clinical

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"Acts like a chicken with its head cut off" is a description of behavior that has its roots in ____ research.

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Hall's

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_____ produced the theory of cranioscopy

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Gall

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____ was a pioneer in research on reflex behavior showing that reflexes could occur in the absence of brain involvement.

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Hall

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The representation of the nervous system as a complex switching system reveals the 19th-century reliance on ____.

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Mechanism

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"jnd" stands for Just Natural Decision T or F

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F

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Hermann von Helmholtz identified the conduction speed of a neural impulse. T or F

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T

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A "two point threshold" is a measure of skin sensation. T or F

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T

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Detectable separation distances are the same for the forearm and fingers. T or F

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F

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Wilhelm Wundt was a german. T or F

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T

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Why did Helmholtz abandon his research into human reaction times?

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He found differences from one individual to the next and he found differences in the same individual.

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Which of the following was not one of the areas of research of Helmholtz?

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All of the choices are areas of study of Helmholtz.

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With regard to the speed of the nerve impulse, perhaps the most important conclusion of Helmholtz's research for psychology was the determination ____.

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that thought and movement are not simultaneous

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German universities were especially fertile ground for scientific advances because ____.

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there was academic freedom for students and teachers alike.

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Whose major contributions to the new psychology involved the two-point threshold and the just noticeable difference?

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Ernest Weber

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Weber's experiments led to two important contributions: (a) further research and (b) the focus of attention of later physiologists and the new psychology on the development of ____.

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experimental methods for studying mind-body relationships

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The method of logic that characterizes psychology and that was favored in Germany of the 19th century was ____.

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the inductive method

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Helmholtz emphasized a ______ approach

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mechanistic and deterministic

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What was the ratio of a weight to its just noticeable difference weight when they were lifted? What was the ratio of a weight to its just noticeable difference weight when the weights were placed in the subject's hands?

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1:40, 1:30

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Weber's Law, the formulation of how much change in a stimulus is required for a subject to detect it, rests on the measurement of the ____.

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just noticeable difference

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The "method of limits" is a way to determine how bright a light or how heavy a weight a person can tolerate. T or F

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F

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The "method of average error" is also referred to as the "method o azimuth" T or F

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F

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The "Method of Constant Stimuli" is used to determine if a person can tell how much brighter or dimmer a light is when compared to a reference light. T or F

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T

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An "absolute threshold" is a point of detection below which there is no sensation T or F

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T

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"Difference threshold" is similar to "jnd" T or F

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T

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Fechner wrote satirical essays ridiculing medicine and science under the pen name ____.

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Dr. Mises

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The original source material on Fechner reproduced in your textbook was taken from the book ____.

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Elements of Psychophysics

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The point of sensitivity at which the least amount of change in a stimulus gives rise to a change in a sensation is a definition of ____.

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the differential threshold

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In the original source material from one of his books, Fechner states that, "____ depends on ____".

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sensation and stimulation

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Fechner's most important contribution to psychology was the ____.

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determination that the effect of a stimulus intensity change is relative to the intensity that already exists

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Fechner's flash of insight about the mind-body connection was that there is a(n) ____ relationship between a mental sensation and a material stimulus.

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quantitative

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As a form of occupational therapy, Fechner ____

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all

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In Fechner's Law as one variable increases arithmetically, the other variable increases ____.

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geometrically

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Late in his career, Fechner noted that the idea for describing the mind-body relationship ____.

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had not be suggested to him by Weber's work.

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____ discovered the law, S = K log R.

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Fechner

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Fechner's work had proved Immanuel Kant wrong when Kant said that ____.

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psychology could never be a science

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