Exam 5: Wundt and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology

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Which of the following was not an essential aspect of Wundt's research on mental chronometry?

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

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

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

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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?

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Why was Wundtian psychology mistakenly characterized for many years in English-speaking countries as "structuralism"?

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According to Wundt,voluntaristic psychology was:

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Titchener's group,known as "The Experimentalists," were notable for:

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One of the Wundtian mental chronometry experiments had one condition in which the subject was required to make a different response to each of two different stimuli,and another in which two stimuli were randomly presented but only one had to be responded to. The mental process presumably required for the first task,but not for the second,was:

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Structuralism was an approach to experimental psychology that:

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