Question 1

According to Wundt,voluntaristic psychology was

Accepted Answer

A)  a nonexperimental branch of psychology that focused on the communal and cultural products of human nature. 
B)  a type of experimental psychology that focused first on discovering the "structure" of the mental phenomena before looking at the "function." 
C)  an approach to psychology that described events working at the periphery of conscious experience, events such as apperception, creative synthesis, psychic causality, and will. 
D)  an approach to psychology focusing on the functional and practical aspects of behavior. 
A)  a nonexperimental branch of psychology that focused on the communal and cultural products of human nature. 
B)  a type of experimental psychology that focused first on discovering the "structure" of the mental phenomena before looking at the "function." 
C)  an approach to psychology that described events working at the periphery of conscious experience, events such as apperception, creative synthesis, psychic causality, and will. 
D)  an approach to psychology focusing on the functional and practical aspects of behavior.

Question 2

Wundt's introspective techniques required his subjects to

Accepted Answer

A)  restrict their introspecting to relatively simple and immediately recallable stimulus situations. 
B)  be especially attentive to their emotional life. 
C)  concentrate on recalling events from childhood. 
D)  let their thoughts wander freely as they introspected. 
A)  restrict their introspecting to relatively simple and immediately recallable stimulus situations. 
B)  be especially attentive to their emotional life. 
C)  concentrate on recalling events from childhood. 
D)  let their thoughts wander freely as they introspected.

Question 3

Match the definition with the term.
-psychic causality

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

According to Wundt,voluntaristic psychology was

Wundt's introspective techniques required his subjects to

Match the definition with the term. -psychic causality

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

According to Wundt,voluntaristic psychology was

Wundt's introspective techniques required his subjects to

Match the definition with the term. -psychic causality

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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