Question 1

E.B.Titchener's attitudes towards women in psychology are best summarized by which statement?

Accepted Answer

A)  He respected and supported women as graduate students but denied them access to the most prestigious professional networks. 
B)  He made no gender-based distinctions in his treatment of women. 
C)  He supervised a few women graduate students but only grudgingly because he had to do so at a publicly funded land grant university. 
D)  He became an outspoken advocate of granting talented women full participation in all of psychology's professional societies. 
A)  He respected and supported women as graduate students but denied them access to the most prestigious professional networks. 
B)  He made no gender-based distinctions in his treatment of women. 
C)  He supervised a few women graduate students but only grudgingly because he had to do so at a publicly funded land grant university. 
D)  He became an outspoken advocate of granting talented women full participation in all of psychology's professional societies. A

Question 2

Match the definition with the term.
-sensations

Accepted Answer

A) can be categorized according to dimensions of pleasantness-unpleasantness,ten-sion-relaxation,and activity-passivity 
B) can be categorized according to mode,qualities,intensities,and durations 
C) process that occurs when ideas are "registered" in consciousness,accompanied by self-awareness,and become subject to focused attention 
D) the observation and systematic reporting of subjective inner experiences 
A) can be categorized according to dimensions of pleasantness-unpleasantness,ten-sion-relaxation,and activity-passivity 
B) can be categorized according to mode,qualities,intensities,and durations 
C) process that occurs when ideas are "registered" in consciousness,accompanied by self-awareness,and become subject to focused attention 
D) the observation and systematic reporting of subjective inner experiences B

Question 3

Wundtian introspective studies analyzed consciousness in terms of

Accepted Answer

A)  sensations and feelings. 
B)  sensations and perceptions. 
C)  sensations and judgments. 
D)  feelings and judgments. 
A)  sensations and feelings. 
B)  sensations and perceptions. 
C)  sensations and judgments. 
D)  feelings and judgments. A

Question 4

__________ was an accomplished American mathematician and vision researcher who challenged Titchener's policies on his invitation-only group of Experimentalists.

Accepted Answer

A)  Christine Ladd-Franklin 
B)  Eleanor Gibson 
C)  Margaret Floy Washburn 
D)  Dorothea Jameson 
A)  Christine Ladd-Franklin 
B)  Eleanor Gibson 
C)  Margaret Floy Washburn 
D)  Dorothea Jameson

Question 5

Match the idea with the researcher who championed it.
-Edward Bradford Titchener

Accepted Answer

A) advocated structuralism as the proper task of experimental psychology,which privileged discovering the contents of consciousness rather than their functions 
B) believed that the higher mental processes,particularly memory,could be studied experimentally 
C) found that certain introspectors reported imageless thoughts,ones that contained no identifiable sensations or feelings 
A) advocated structuralism as the proper task of experimental psychology,which privileged discovering the contents of consciousness rather than their functions 
B) believed that the higher mental processes,particularly memory,could be studied experimentally 
C) found that certain introspectors reported imageless thoughts,ones that contained no identifiable sensations or feelings

Question 6

In what way(s)did the work at Würzburg challenge Wundt's psychology?

Accepted Answer

Studies of imageless thoughts and direct

Question 7

James McKeen Cattell is known for which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  his invention of the "subtractive" method for reaction time research 
B)  his disagreement with Wundt on the matter of spirituality caused him to leave Leipzig 
C)  his writing of Principles of Physiological Psychology, one of the first experimental psychology textbooks 
D)  his invention of apparatus and techniques for measuring reaction times more accurately, and in a wider and more interesting variety of situations, than had ever been done before 
A)  his invention of the "subtractive" method for reaction time research 
B)  his disagreement with Wundt on the matter of spirituality caused him to leave Leipzig 
C)  his writing of Principles of Physiological Psychology, one of the first experimental psychology textbooks 
D)  his invention of apparatus and techniques for measuring reaction times more accurately, and in a wider and more interesting variety of situations, than had ever been done before

Question 8

Wundt and his students found that it took a subject about one-tenth of a second longer to respond to a stimulus when concentrating attention on the expected stimulus,as opposed to when concentrating on the required response.To what process did they attribute the extra time?

Accepted Answer

A)  perception 
B)  apperception 
C)  sensation 
D)  anticipation 
A)  perception 
B)  apperception 
C)  sensation 
D)  anticipation

Question 9

Introspective studies showing that prior instructions can influence thought without directly entering into subjects' conscious associational processes were said to reveal

Accepted Answer

A)  mental sets. 
B)  unconscious motivation 
C)  restricted association. 
D)  the process of apperception. 
A)  mental sets. 
B)  unconscious motivation 
C)  restricted association. 
D)  the process of apperception.

Question 10

Ebbinghaus's innovative method for studying memory experimentally made use of

Accepted Answer

A)  directed association. 
B)  mental chronometry. 
C)  nonsense syllables. 
D)  structural introspection. 
A)  directed association. 
B)  mental chronometry. 
C)  nonsense syllables. 
D)  structural introspection.

Question 11

Match the definition with the term.
-apperception

Accepted Answer

A) can be categorized according to dimensions of pleasantness-unpleasantness,ten-sion-relaxation,and activity-passivity 
B) can be categorized according to mode,qualities,intensities,and durations 
C) process that occurs when ideas are "registered" in consciousness,accompanied by self-awareness,and become subject to focused attention 
D) the observation and systematic reporting of subjective inner experiences 
A) can be categorized according to dimensions of pleasantness-unpleasantness,ten-sion-relaxation,and activity-passivity 
B) can be categorized according to mode,qualities,intensities,and durations 
C) process that occurs when ideas are "registered" in consciousness,accompanied by self-awareness,and become subject to focused attention 
D) the observation and systematic reporting of subjective inner experiences

Question 12

Match the definition with the term.
-forgetting curve

Accepted Answer

A) consonant-vowel-consonant combinations,such as taz,bok,and lef,used to study memory 
B) during introspection,imposing meaning or interpretation on mental contents,rather than reducing them to their most basic elements 
C) the finding that memory for a learned task first drops off steeply and then declines more slowly 
A) consonant-vowel-consonant combinations,such as taz,bok,and lef,used to study memory 
B) during introspection,imposing meaning or interpretation on mental contents,rather than reducing them to their most basic elements 
C) the finding that memory for a learned task first drops off steeply and then declines more slowly

Question 13

The book by Wilhelm Wundt often credited with launching experimental psychology as a separate discipline was

Accepted Answer

A)  Elements of Psychophysics. 
B)  Principles of Physiological Psychology. 
C)  The Interpretation of Dreams. 
D)  Psychology: A Briefer Course. 
A)  Elements of Psychophysics. 
B)  Principles of Physiological Psychology. 
C)  The Interpretation of Dreams. 
D)  Psychology: A Briefer Course.

Question 14

Which of the following was NOT proposed in the Preface of Wundt's early textbook,Contributions to the Theory of Perception,where he described the program that would occupy him for the rest of his life?

Accepted Answer

A)  an experimental psychology to introspectively study the facts of consciousness 
B)  a psychology for studying the higher mental functions based on historical, comparative, and ethnographic analyses 
C)  a psychology of individual differences, applying facts of general psychology toward an understanding of single personalities 
D)  the systematic study of reaction times 
A)  an experimental psychology to introspectively study the facts of consciousness 
B)  a psychology for studying the higher mental functions based on historical, comparative, and ethnographic analyses 
C)  a psychology of individual differences, applying facts of general psychology toward an understanding of single personalities 
D)  the systematic study of reaction times

Question 15

Match the study with the researcher.
-Oswald Külpe

Accepted Answer

A) introspective studies that found imageless thoughts free of sensations or feelings 
B) measured verbal association times and found that reaction times varied greatly not only between tasks,but between different subjects 
C) used nonsense syllables to study memory 
A) introspective studies that found imageless thoughts free of sensations or feelings 
B) measured verbal association times and found that reaction times varied greatly not only between tasks,but between different subjects 
C) used nonsense syllables to study memory

Question 16

Match the definition with the term.
-structuralism

Accepted Answer

A) an approach that argues psychology should focus introspectively on discovering the elements of consciousness rather than their functions 
B) an approach to psychology that emphasizes conscious experiences of will or voluntary effort 
C) nonexperimental psychology that explores communal and cultural products of human nature using comparative and historical methods 
D) the use of reaction time experiments to measure the speed of information processing and make inferences about basic elements of consciousness 
A) an approach that argues psychology should focus introspectively on discovering the elements of consciousness rather than their functions 
B) an approach to psychology that emphasizes conscious experiences of will or voluntary effort 
C) nonexperimental psychology that explores communal and cultural products of human nature using comparative and historical methods 
D) the use of reaction time experiments to measure the speed of information processing and make inferences about basic elements of consciousness

Question 17

Match the study with the researcher.
-Edward Bradford Titchener

Accepted Answer

A) an experiment with a "thought meter," which challenged the idea that when two separate stimuli strike our sense at the same time we become consciously aware of them at the same instant 
B) extensive introspective studies of the elements of consciousness that produced an estimated 43,000 distinct elements of sensory experience 
C) introspective analyzes of the basic elements of smell,which produced an estimat-ed just noticeable difference for intensities of smell 
A) an experiment with a "thought meter," which challenged the idea that when two separate stimuli strike our sense at the same time we become consciously aware of them at the same instant 
B) extensive introspective studies of the elements of consciousness that produced an estimated 43,000 distinct elements of sensory experience 
C) introspective analyzes of the basic elements of smell,which produced an estimat-ed just noticeable difference for intensities of smell

Question 18

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher.
-Wilhelm Wundt

Accepted Answer

A) Eleanor Acheson McCulloch Gamble 
B) Henry J.Watt 
C) James McKeen Cattell 
A) Eleanor Acheson McCulloch Gamble 
B) Henry J.Watt 
C) James McKeen Cattell

Question 19

All of the following became famous after directly studying with Wilhelm Wundt EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  James McKeen Cattell. 
B)  Oswald Külpe. 
C)  Hermann Ebbinghaus. 
D)  Edward Titchener. 
A)  James McKeen Cattell. 
B)  Oswald Külpe. 
C)  Hermann Ebbinghaus. 
D)  Edward Titchener.

Question 20

Who is often regarded as the "father" of modern academic and experimental psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)  Edward Bradford Titchener 
B)  Wilhelm Wundt 
C)  Sigmund Freud 
D)  William James 
A)  Edward Bradford Titchener 
B)  Wilhelm Wundt 
C)  Sigmund Freud 
D)  William James

E.B.Titchener's attitudes towards women in psychology are best summarized by which statement?

Match the definition with the term. -sensations

Wundtian introspective studies analyzed consciousness in terms of

__________ was an accomplished American mathematician and vision researcher who challenged Titchener's policies on his invitation-only group of Experimentalists.

Match the idea with the researcher who championed it. -Edward Bradford Titchener

In what way(s)did the work at Würzburg challenge Wundt's psychology?

James McKeen Cattell is known for which of the following?

Wundt and his students found that it took a subject about one-tenth of a second longer to respond to a stimulus when concentrating attention on the expected stimulus,as opposed to when concentrating on the required response.To what process did they attribute the extra time?

Introspective studies showing that prior instructions can influence thought without directly entering into subjects' conscious associational processes were said to reveal

Ebbinghaus's innovative method for studying memory experimentally made use of

Match the definition with the term. -apperception

Match the definition with the term. -forgetting curve

The book by Wilhelm Wundt often credited with launching experimental psychology as a separate discipline was

Which of the following was NOT proposed in the Preface of Wundt's early textbook,Contributions to the Theory of Perception,where he described the program that would occupy him for the rest of his life?

Match the study with the researcher. -Oswald Külpe

Match the definition with the term. -structuralism

Match the study with the researcher. -Edward Bradford Titchener

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher. -Wilhelm Wundt

All of the following became famous after directly studying with Wilhelm Wundt EXCEPT

Who is often regarded as the "father" of modern academic and experimental psychology?

Introduction: Studying the History of Psychology

Foundational Ideas from Antiquity

Pioneering Philosophers of Mind: Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz

Physiologists of Mind: Brain Scientists from Gall to Penfield

The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: From Kant through the Gestalt Psychologists

The Evolving Mind: Darwin and His Psychological Legacy

Measuring the Mind: Galton and Individual Differences

American Pioneers: James, Hall, Calkins, and Thorndike

Psychology as the Science of Behavior: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner

Social Influence and Social Psychology: From Mesmer to Milgram and Beyond

Mind in Conflict: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Its Successors

Psychology Gets “Personality”: Allport, Maslow, and the Broadening Field

The Developing Mind: Binet, Piaget, and the Study of Intelligence

Minds, Machines, and Cognitive Psychology

Applying Psychology: From the Witness Stand to the Workplace

The Art and Science of Clinical Psychology

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Exam 6: Wundt and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology

E.B.Titchener's attitudes towards women in psychology are best summarized by which statement?

Match the definition with the term. -sensations

Wundtian introspective studies analyzed consciousness in terms of

__________ was an accomplished American mathematician and vision researcher who challenged Titchener's policies on his invitation-only group of Experimentalists.

Match the idea with the researcher who championed it. -Edward Bradford Titchener

In what way(s)did the work at Würzburg challenge Wundt's psychology?

James McKeen Cattell is known for which of the following?

Wundt and his students found that it took a subject about one-tenth of a second longer to respond to a stimulus when concentrating attention on the expected stimulus,as opposed to when concentrating on the required response.To what process did they attribute the extra time?

Introspective studies showing that prior instructions can influence thought without directly entering into subjects' conscious associational processes were said to reveal

Ebbinghaus's innovative method for studying memory experimentally made use of

Match the definition with the term. -apperception

Match the definition with the term. -forgetting curve

The book by Wilhelm Wundt often credited with launching experimental psychology as a separate discipline was

Which of the following was NOT proposed in the Preface of Wundt's early textbook,Contributions to the Theory of Perception,where he described the program that would occupy him for the rest of his life?

Match the study with the researcher. -Oswald Külpe

Match the definition with the term. -structuralism

Match the study with the researcher. -Edward Bradford Titchener

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher. -Wilhelm Wundt

All of the following became famous after directly studying with Wilhelm Wundt EXCEPT

Who is often regarded as the "father" of modern academic and experimental psychology?

Introduction: Studying the History of Psychology

Foundational Ideas from Antiquity

Pioneering Philosophers of Mind: Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz

Physiologists of Mind: Brain Scientists from Gall to Penfield

The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: From Kant through the Gestalt Psychologists

The Evolving Mind: Darwin and His Psychological Legacy

Measuring the Mind: Galton and Individual Differences

American Pioneers: James, Hall, Calkins, and Thorndike

Psychology as the Science of Behavior: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner

Social Influence and Social Psychology: From Mesmer to Milgram and Beyond

Mind in Conflict: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Its Successors

Psychology Gets “Personality”: Allport, Maslow, and the Broadening Field

The Developing Mind: Binet, Piaget, and the Study of Intelligence

Minds, Machines, and Cognitive Psychology

Applying Psychology: From the Witness Stand to the Workplace

The Art and Science of Clinical Psychology

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