Question 1

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher.
-Oswald Külpe

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 2

Structuralism was an approach to experimental psychology that

Accepted Answer

A)  focused on the function of the mind rather than the biology of the brain. 
B)  focused on what the mind is rather than what the mind is for. 
C)  was completely in keeping with the Wundtian framework. 
D)  focused solely on physiology, omitting subjective introspection. 
A)  focused on the function of the mind rather than the biology of the brain. 
B)  focused on what the mind is rather than what the mind is for. 
C)  was completely in keeping with the Wundtian framework. 
D)  focused solely on physiology, omitting subjective introspection.

Question 3

In Wilhelm Wundt's terminology,the occurrence of a(n)__________ was a specific instance of what he more generally called __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  creative synthesis; psychic causality 
B)  dream; unconscious motivation 
C)  delayed reaction time; perceptual blocking 
D)  imageless thought; mental sets 
A)  creative synthesis; psychic causality 
B)  dream; unconscious motivation 
C)  delayed reaction time; perceptual blocking 
D)  imageless thought; mental sets

Question 4

Match the study with the researcher.
-Hermann Ebbinghaus

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 5

Match the idea with the researcher who championed it.
-Hermann Ebbinghaus

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

One of the major topics covered in Wundt's Völkerpsychologie was

Accepted Answer

A)  language. 
B)  mental chronometry. 
C)  the tri-dimensional theory of feeling. 
D)  the study of memory for nonsense syllables. 
A)  language. 
B)  mental chronometry. 
C)  the tri-dimensional theory of feeling. 
D)  the study of memory for nonsense syllables.

Question 7

Match the study with the researcher.
-James McKeen Cattell

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 8

Which of the following senses proved most difficult for Titchener and his students to study with their introspective method?

Accepted Answer

A)  vision 
B)  audition 
C)  smell 
D)  taste 
A)  vision 
B)  audition 
C)  smell 
D)  taste

Question 9

Why was Wundt's landmark book Principles of Physiological Psychology (1874)important?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was the first genuine "textbook" describing under one cover several recent developments in the area of experimental psychology. 
B)  It focused attention on the originality and variety of Wundt's own experiments. 
C)  It introduced the work of early female psychologists. 
D)  It established the importance of unconscious motivation. 
A)  It was the first genuine "textbook" describing under one cover several recent developments in the area of experimental psychology. 
B)  It focused attention on the originality and variety of Wundt's own experiments. 
C)  It introduced the work of early female psychologists. 
D)  It established the importance of unconscious motivation.

Question 10

Match the definition with the term.
-nonsense syllable

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 11

Match the publication with the author.
-Wilhelm Wundt

Accepted Answer

A) Grundzüge der Physiologischen Psychologie (Principles of Physiological Psychol-ogy) 
B) The Animal Mind 
C) "The Applicability of Weber's Law to Smell" 
A) Grundzüge der Physiologischen Psychologie (Principles of Physiological Psychol-ogy) 
B) The Animal Mind 
C) "The Applicability of Weber's Law to Smell"

Question 12

Match the definition with the term.
-mental set

Accepted Answer

A) introspective accounts of consciousness free of identifiable sensations or feelings 
B) preliminary orientations toward stimuli,which are outside of conscious awareness,but influence a subject's associations 
C) the association of stimulus words according to specific instructions rather than in a completely free fashion 
A) introspective accounts of consciousness free of identifiable sensations or feelings 
B) preliminary orientations toward stimuli,which are outside of conscious awareness,but influence a subject's associations 
C) the association of stimulus words according to specific instructions rather than in a completely free fashion

Question 13

Which piece of experimental apparatus did James McKeen Cattell invent?

Accepted Answer

A)  a clock rigged to make a sound when its pendulum reached its farthest swing 
B)  a lip-key used to help record reaction times for verbal responses 
C)  a series of embedded figures that cannot be perceived by color blind subjects 
D)  a "tachistoscope" that presented stimuli to subjects for just small fractions of a second 
A)  a clock rigged to make a sound when its pendulum reached its farthest swing 
B)  a lip-key used to help record reaction times for verbal responses 
C)  a series of embedded figures that cannot be perceived by color blind subjects 
D)  a "tachistoscope" that presented stimuli to subjects for just small fractions of a second

Question 14

Explain why the Experimentalists were a controversial group.

Accepted Answer

The Experimentalists was a professional

Question 15

Who among the following was a doctoral student of Titchener's who conducted an important study of the sense of smell?

Accepted Answer

A)  Margaret Floy Washburn 
B)  Eleanor Acheson McCulloch Gamble 
C)  Christine Ladd-Franklin 
D)  Mary Whiton Calkins 
A)  Margaret Floy Washburn 
B)  Eleanor Acheson McCulloch Gamble 
C)  Christine Ladd-Franklin 
D)  Mary Whiton Calkins

Question 16

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher.
-Edward Bradford Titchener

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 17

Which of the following is NOT true about Wundt's Völkerpsychologie?

Accepted Answer

A)  It focused on the collective as opposed to the individual products of human psychology. 
B)  It encouraged the use of historical and comparative methods of analysis. 
C)  The study of language was an important aspect of it. 
D)  It encouraged the experimental and laboratory-based study of memory. 
A)  It focused on the collective as opposed to the individual products of human psychology. 
B)  It encouraged the use of historical and comparative methods of analysis. 
C)  The study of language was an important aspect of it. 
D)  It encouraged the experimental and laboratory-based study of memory.

Question 18

Match the study with the researcher.
-Wilhelm Wundt

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 19

Match the publication with the author.
-Margaret Floy Washburn

Accepted Answer

A) Grundzüge der Physiologischen Psychologie (Principles of Physiological Psychol-ogy) 
B) The Animal Mind 
C) "The Applicability of Weber's Law to Smell" 
A) Grundzüge der Physiologischen Psychologie (Principles of Physiological Psychol-ogy) 
B) The Animal Mind 
C) "The Applicability of Weber's Law to Smell"

Question 20

Match the definition with the term.
-personal equations

Accepted Answer

A) a technique where average reaction time for a simple task is subtracted from the average time for a more complex task,with the difference taken to been the time required for a "higher" mental function 
B) consistent individual differences in reaction times,first noted in discrepancies be-tween observers taking astronomical transit readings. 
C) the notion that apperceived ideas may be combined and organized in many ways,including some that have never been experienced before 
D) the notion that there are different rules in place for apperceptive processes that are not reducible to mechanistic causality 
A) a technique where average reaction time for a simple task is subtracted from the average time for a more complex task,with the difference taken to been the time required for a "higher" mental function 
B) consistent individual differences in reaction times,first noted in discrepancies be-tween observers taking astronomical transit readings. 
C) the notion that apperceived ideas may be combined and organized in many ways,including some that have never been experienced before 
D) the notion that there are different rules in place for apperceptive processes that are not reducible to mechanistic causality

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher. -Oswald Külpe

Structuralism was an approach to experimental psychology that

In Wilhelm Wundt's terminology,the occurrence of a(n) was a specific instance of what he more generally called .

Match the study with the researcher. -Hermann Ebbinghaus

Match the idea with the researcher who championed it. -Hermann Ebbinghaus

One of the major topics covered in Wundt's Völkerpsychologie was

Match the study with the researcher. -James McKeen Cattell

Which of the following senses proved most difficult for Titchener and his students to study with their introspective method?

Why was Wundt's landmark book Principles of Physiological Psychology (1874)important?

Match the definition with the term. -nonsense syllable

Match the publication with the author. -Wilhelm Wundt

Match the definition with the term. -mental set

Which piece of experimental apparatus did James McKeen Cattell invent?

Explain why the Experimentalists were a controversial group.

Who among the following was a doctoral student of Titchener's who conducted an important study of the sense of smell?

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher. -Edward Bradford Titchener

Which of the following is NOT true about Wundt's Völkerpsychologie?

Match the study with the researcher. -Wilhelm Wundt

Match the publication with the author. -Margaret Floy Washburn

Match the definition with the term. -personal equations

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

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher. -Oswald Külpe

Structuralism was an approach to experimental psychology that

In Wilhelm Wundt's terminology,the occurrence of a(n)__________ was a specific instance of what he more generally called __________.

Match the study with the researcher. -Hermann Ebbinghaus

Match the idea with the researcher who championed it. -Hermann Ebbinghaus

One of the major topics covered in Wundt's Völkerpsychologie was

Match the study with the researcher. -James McKeen Cattell

Which of the following senses proved most difficult for Titchener and his students to study with their introspective method?

Why was Wundt's landmark book Principles of Physiological Psychology (1874)important?

Match the definition with the term. -nonsense syllable

Match the publication with the author. -Wilhelm Wundt

Match the definition with the term. -mental set

Which piece of experimental apparatus did James McKeen Cattell invent?

Explain why the Experimentalists were a controversial group.

Who among the following was a doctoral student of Titchener's who conducted an important study of the sense of smell?

Match the (lettered)student with the (numbered)teacher. -Edward Bradford Titchener

Which of the following is NOT true about Wundt's Völkerpsychologie?

Match the study with the researcher. -Wilhelm Wundt

Match the publication with the author. -Margaret Floy Washburn

Match the definition with the term. -personal equations

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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In Wilhelm Wundt's terminology,the occurrence of a(n) was a specific instance of what he more generally called .