Exam 5: Wundts Immediate Predecessors

Among Helmholtz's contributions to psychology are his invention of the ophthalmoscope, his analysis of auditory consonance and dissonance, and his theory of color vision.

What were some of the consequences of Herbart's proposal that ideas are dynamic?

Du Bois-Reymond, Helmholtz, Ludwig, and Brücke

How did Helmholtz propose that we hear auditory pitch?

How did Helmholtz measure the speed of the nervous impulse, and what did he find out?

What is Fechner's law, and what did he believe was its metaphysical role?

Herbart proposed that one effective teaching method is to present new material, show how it can be applied, and then relate it to previously learned material and to the apperceptive mass.

E. H. Weber's law concerns the

Characterize the German Ortgeist in the time of Wundt.

Wolff's Empirical Psychology and Rational Psychology

How can Hamilton's principle of redintegration explain the phenomenon of "déjà vu?"

Among Helmholtz's contributions are

Who signed the scientific materialist "blood oath," and what did this oath assert?

How did Swammerdam's experiment on contracting muscles disprove the idea that muscles contract because of the entry into them of animal spirits?

Why did Berkeley argue that there are no primary qualities in Locke's sense?

What did Lloyd Morgan's canon propose?

The German Ortgeist at the time of Wundt was academic, systematic, and formal, and encouraged rigorous experimentation.

Helmholtz's concept of unconscious inference asserts that

What educational prescription follows from Herbart's conception of the apperceptive mass?

Weber's two-point threshold could be considered as one kind of just noticeable difference or jnd.