Question 1

In 1867, Wundt offered the first course ever given in

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physiological psychology

Question 2

Ebbinghaus and KÃ¶nig argued that psychology and physiology

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are inseparable halves of a new great double science

Question 3

This popular lecturer at the University of Vienna influenced many students including von Ehrenfels and Freud and was the intellectual antecedent of Gestalt psychology and humanistic psychology

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Franz Brentano

Question 4

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 nine times harder to learn than meaningful material

Question 5

For Wundt, feelings are

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based on three dimensions including pleasure/displeasure

Question 6

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

Question 7

Wundt\'s most important contribution to psychology was

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All of the above

Question 8

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

Question 9

Wundt\'s doctrine of apperception was also known as the

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law of psychic resultants

Question 10

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

Question 11

Wundt\'s system is most accurately called

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experimental psychology

Question 12

In Wundt\'s laboratory, introspection was used to assess

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immediate experience

Question 13

As his measure of learning, Ebbinghaus adapted a method from

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the associationists

Question 14

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

Question 15

Ebbinghaus measured the rate of human learning by

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

Question 16

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

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Brentano

Question 17

The psychological study of music was pioneered by

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Stumpf

Question 18

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

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2.2 pages a day for over 50 years

Question 19

Because some time elapsed between the experience and the reporting of it, critics charged that introspection was really a form of

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retrospection

Question 20

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

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moved far beyond his initial boundaries

Question 21

Of the 56 doctoral degrees Titchener conferred, what percentage were given to women?

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more than a third

Question 22

Titchener\'s research identified three elements of consciousness: sensations, affective states, and

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images

Question 23

By 1896, Titchener had identified approximately how many elements of sensation

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more than 44,000

Question 24

Who argued that the mind may observe all phenomena but its own

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Comte

Question 25

Toward the end of Titchener\'s career, he came to favor the ____ method instead of the ____ method

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phenomenological; introspective

Question 26

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

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existential

Question 27

Titchener\'s introspection method was most like ____ method.

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KÃ¼lpe\'s

Question 28

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

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were skeptical of the use of scientific approaches to philosophical questions

Question 29

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

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translated Wundt\'s books from German into English

Question 30

Which of the following was a topic to be explored by Titchener\'s psychology

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All the choices are correct

Question 31

Who scolded Titchener for still practicing \"a very old fashioned standpoint\" in excluding women from psychology meetings

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Ladd-Franklin

Question 32

Titchener argued that psychology is unique among the sciences because

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psychology alone is dependent on experiencing persons

Question 33

In their evaluation of Titchener\'s theoretical viewpoint toward the end of his career, Schultz and Schultz conclude that he was

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as flexible and open to change as scientists are supposed to be

Question 34

Titchener spent most of his career at

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Cornell University

Question 35

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

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consciousness

Question 36

The sum of our experiences accumulated over a lifetime is Titchener\'s definition of

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mind

Question 37

What had the greatest impact upon Galton\'s view on the measurement of intelligence

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Locke\'s theory that all knowledge comes through the senses

Question 38

In a public debate on evolution, ____ refuted the points made against evolution by ____

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Huxley; Wilberforce

Question 39

Darwin\'s position on Lamarck\'s idea that changes due to experiences can be inherited was the ____ of Lamarck\'s ____

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acceptance; doctrine

Question 40

What additional interest(s) did Galton research

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All of the above

Question 41

Which of the of the following statements best summarizes the protest of functional psychology against Wundt and Titchener

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Functional psychology claimed that Wundt\'s and Titchener\'s approaches were too restrictive because they did not study the practical value of mental processes.

Question 42

According to ____, animals have no soul and thus are automata.

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Descartes

Question 43

Which of the following works were most influential in the development of functionalism

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The work of Darwin and Galton and comparative research

Question 44

In his book ____, Darwin emphasized the similarity between human and animal mental processes

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The Descent of Man

Question 45

Galton\'s measures of intellectual functioning assumed correlation between intelligence and

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acuteness of the senses

Question 46

The first person(s) to engage in large studies of experimental comparative psychology was/were

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Morgan

Question 47

Which of the following are influenced by Galton\'s work

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All of the above

Question 48

The idea of measures clustering around the of center or average of a distribution should be attributed to

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Quetelet

Question 49

Wundt\'s early position on animal intelligence was that

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any sensory capacity at all allowed for judgment and drawing of conscious inferences

Question 50

In his journal Mind, Darwin describes

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the developmental stages of his son in relation to human evolution

Question 51

Who wrote a 16th-century book on individual differences and argued that children\'s education should be individualized to recognize such differences

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Huarte

Question 52

Who was the first to show that biological and social data were normally distributed

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Quetelet

Question 53

To study mental imagery, Galton used which self-report method

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the questionnaire

Question 54

The work of Romanes was especially flawed because of his

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use of the anecdotal method

Question 55

Galton\'s Hereditary Genius was mainly concerned with

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a statistical analysis of the concept of eminent men producing eminent offspring

Question 56

Wundt\'s data were objective measures

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True

Question 57

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

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False

Question 58

For Wundt, the elements of the mind are sensations and feelings

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True

Question 59

The method of systematic experimental introspection was developed by Wundt.

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False

Question 60

Titchener\'s introspective observers agreed quite closely when reporting on the same stimulus

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False

Question 61

The criticisms directed at the method of introspection were more relevant to Titchener\'s method of observation than they were to Wundt\'s method.

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True

Question 62

Titchener could be regarded as somewhat open-minded in his attitudes toward the rights of women

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True

Question 63

The quality of Galton\'s research is verified by its reliability, as assessed as recently as 1985

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True

Question 64

When psychologists began to examine mental processes in a completely different way than biologists studied anatomy, they laid the groundwork for functional psychology.

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False

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