PSYCH 405 Exam 3 | Questions and Answers To study mental acts and intentionality, Brentano used: phenomenological methods Which of the following did Wundt believe about experimental psychology: it was useless in understanding higher mental processes Georg Elias Müller was the first to demonstra...
To study mental acts and intentionality, Brentano used:
phenomenological methods
Which of the following did Wundt believe about experimental psychology:
it was useless in understanding higher mental processes
Georg Elias Müller was the first to demonstrate:
retroactive inhibition
For Titchener, a stimulus error consisted of:
allowing the meaning of an object to influence one's introspective analysis of that object
Describing a stimulus as visual or auditory defines the ____ of the stimulus, while
describing the stimulus in terms of how loud or bright it is describes its ____.
modality; intensity
Külpe's technique of ____ involves giving subjects problems to solve and then asking
them to report the mental operations they engage in to solve them.
systematic experimental introspection
Titchener defined ____ as the accumulated experiences of a lifetime
the mind
Which of the following philosophies most influenced Wundt?
Rationalism
In explaining how the elements of thought combine, Titchener emphasized:
traditional associationism
Titchener formed "The Experimentalists" because:
he believed the APA was too friendly towards applied topics
According to Wundt, empiricism lacked an appreciation of:
volitional processes
By plotting savings as a function of time, Ebbinghaus created psychology's first:
retention curve
Ebbinghaus invented nonsense material to free his research material from the influence
of:
, prior learning
Which of the following best describes Vaihinger's attitude toward "fictions"?
Without them, societal living would be impossible.
According to Husserl, experimental psychology:
must be preceded by phenomenological analysis
The central concept on Wundt's voluntarism was:
Will
According to the text, the most important reason for the demise of structuralism was its
failure to:
assimilate the doctrine of evolution
Titchener defined ____ as the sum total of mental experience at any given moment.
the consciousness
To study the higher mental processes, Wundt believed that we must use ____.
naturalistic observation of various forms
Wundt's concept of mental chronometry is:
an accurate cataloging of the time it took to perform various mental acts
Wundt's principle of ____ states that prolonged experiences of one type cause one to
seek the opposite type of experience.
the development of opposites
The part of the perceptual field that the individual attends to is:
Apperceived
From the experiment with the pendulum clock (thought meter), Wundt concluded that:
experimental psychology must stress selective attention
The supposed intelligent behavior of a nonhuman animal has often been found to be
nothing more than the animal's responses to subtle cues (consciously or unconsciously)
provided by its trainer. This observation is called the:
Clever Han's phenomenon
Wundt believed that schizophrenia might be explained as a breakdown of the:
attentional processes
According to Donders, the time it takes to perform the mental act of discrimination is
determined by:
subtracting simple reaction time from the reaction time that involves discrimination
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