Psych 405 Test 1 – Flashcards

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Materialism is the belief that
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all things can be described in physical terms
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Stumpf's method of observation was
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phenomenology
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Contemporary cognitive psychologists' computer model of AI is a direct descendent of
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Babbage's calculating machine
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Psychology was founded by
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Wundt
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Kulpe opposed Wundt by claiming that conscious thought processes can be carried out without the presence of sensations or feelings. Kulpes view is known as
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Imageless thought
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The term Zeitgeist refers to
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the intellectual and cultural climate of the times
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James Mill demonstrated a radical perspective because he believed that the mind is a
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machine
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The Zeitgeist of 17th-19th century Europe and of US was marked by
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mechanism
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As his measure of learning, Ebbinghaus adapted a method from
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the associationists
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Which of the following idea has psychology borrowed from natural physics
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effects are predictable and measurable
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In modern terminology, Descartes would argue that if the inputs are known, the behavioral outputs can be predicted. Thus he is an intellectual ancestor of
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S-R psychology
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______are mechanized figures that almost perfectly duplicate the movements of living things.
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Automata
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Aristotle held that the mind was a wax slate upon which impressions are made. Locke invoked the metaphor of the ___ to illustrate the same phenomenon.
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tabula rasa
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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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Descarte's dualism was novel in its emphasis on the
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influence of the body on the mind
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The doctrine of_____is important because it stimulated opposition among early empiricists and associationists.
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innate ideas
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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it, then the fall makes no sound. Using Locke's distinctions, this conclusion assumes that the sound is a___
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secondary quality
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Berkeley's basic difference with Locke was the former's arguement that
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there are no primary qualities
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The practice of psychosurgery such as prefrontal lobotomies, has its roots in the
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extirpation method
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Kulpes method emphasized all of the following except
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investigation of unconscious processes
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In the US, the ____brothers had a profitable and extensive business in selling phrenology readings.
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Fowler
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Fechner's work had proved Kant wrong when Kant said that
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psychology could never be a science
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The researcher credited with the finding that nerve impulses are electrical within the neuron is
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Galvani
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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 faculty alike
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Wundt's system is most accurately called
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experimental psychology
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According to Descartes, the pineal gland was the part of the brain
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where the mind and body interact
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The cultural psychology of Wundt examined evidence from
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examination of language, myths, customs, law, and morals
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Who invented the opthalmoscope
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Helmholtz
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Wunts 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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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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Bessel began the study of individual differences in perception by noting that
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astronomers differed in their time estimates in measuring the transit of a star
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Both the term and concept of positivism represent the thought of
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Comte
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Which of the following is true of Fechner
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All of the above. (taught at Leipzig, pleasure principle, damaged eyes w colored glasses, cured of symptoms by eating raw ham)
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Brentano's system of psych was called ____ psychology
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act
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The scientific study of the relations between mental and physical processes is a definition of
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psychophysics
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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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In Fechner's law, S is the ___
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magnitude of the sensation
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In his early work when he was his own experimental subject, the 29 yr old William Wundt found that he could
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not pay attention to two things at once
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For Wundt, the subject matter of psychology was
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consciousness
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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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Fechner's most important contribution to psychology was the
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quantification of the mind-body relationship
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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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One of Helmholtz's particular contributions to psychology was his work on
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vision
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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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The fundamental purpose of creating nonsense syllables is to
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control for previous learning
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What invention was considered the perfect metaphor for the "spirit of mechanism"?
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clock
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Ebbinghaus developed a _____, 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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Stumpf's method of observation was
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phenomenology
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What is the smallest detectable difference between two stimuli?
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just noticeable difference
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While Hartley's fundamental law of association was ____, he also proposed that ____ was necessary for associations to be formed
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contiguity; repetition
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Ebbinghaus's work on learning and forgetting has been judged one of the great instances of original genius in experimental psychology.
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True
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Comte would argue that because God perceives the world, objects in it remain constant
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False
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There was little difference between James Mill and son John Stuart Mill in their interpretation of human mental functioning.
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False
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Broca's area was discovered using the extirpation method
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False
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If you look at a rose and report "The rose is red" then you are describing immediate experience
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True
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Locke used simple and complex ideas to describe his theory of association, now known as learning.
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True
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Helmholtz produced the first empirical evidence that thought and movement are successive and not concurrent.
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True
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Wundts cultural psychology gained acclaim by distinguishing itself from philosophy
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False
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The essence of Weber's Law is that the just noticeable difference depends on the relative difference between two intensities of stimulation
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True
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For Descarte, the functions of the body operate according to mechanical principles
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True
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