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Külpe opposed Wundt by claiming that conscious thought processes can be carried out without the presence of sensations or feelings. Külpe’s view is known as |
imageless thought |
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Wundt’s term voluntarism reflects his emphasis on the |
power of the will to organize the contents of the mind |
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Other than Stumpf’s research, his greatest influence on psychology may have been |
educating the founders of Gestalt psychology |
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The first system or school of thought in psychology was called |
voluntarism by Wundt |
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Wundt classified sensations according to which characteristics? |
intensity, duration, and sense modality |
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In his early work when he was his own experimental subject, the 29-year-old Wilhelm Wundt found that he could |
not pay attention to two things at once |
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While Wundt had argued that learning and memory could not be studied experimentally, who soon proved him wrong? |
Ebbinghaus |
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Titchener noted that the first significant advance in the study of learning since Aristotle was |
the development of the nonsense syllable |
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The subject matter of psychology is the act of experiencing, according to |
Brentano |
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Stumpf’s method of observation was |
phenomenology |
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Research suggests that many psychology historians consider ____ to be the most important psychologist of all time. |
Wundt |
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Which of the following are the three dimensions of Wundt’s tridimensional theory of feelings? |
pleasure/displeasure; tension/relaxation; excitement/depression. |
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Which of the following is NOT one of Wundt’s experimental conditions? |
Observers must be able to describe the qualitative aspects of their experiences. |
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Stumpf and Wundt engaged in a bitter fight over the topic of |
the introspection of tones |
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The Gestalt psychologists’ best-known tenet is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This same tenet was alleged in Wundt’s principle of |
apperception |
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In Wundt’s laboratory, introspection was used to assess |
immediate experience |
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Wundt’s theory of feelings was based on |
his own introspections |
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For Wundt, the subject matter of psychology was |
consciousness |
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Which of the following methods is defined as "the examination of experience as it occurred without any attempt to reduce experience to elementary components." |
phenomenology |
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In 1867, Wundt offered the first course ever given in |
physiological psychology |
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Ebbinghaus’ curve of forgetting shows that |
material is forgotten rapidly in the first hours after learning and then the forgetting slows down |
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Act psychology, in contrast to Wundt’s approach, claimed that psychology should |
study mental processes or functions and not mental structure |
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Wundt’s system is most accurately identified as |
experimental psychology |
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Given that many of his research findings remain valid today, ____ can be seen as more influential than ____ |
Ebbinghaus; Wundt |
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Ebbinghaus is important for the history of psychology because he |
successfully challenged Wundt’s claim that higher mental processes, such as learning and memory, could not be studied in the laboratory |
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Brentano’s system of psychology was called ____ psychology |
Act |
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Wundt argued that cognitive processes such as learning and memory could not be studied by experimental methods because |
they were influenced by language and aspects thereof |
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This person was influenced by Fechner’s rigid and systematic use of measurement in developing his own methods for researching higher level cognitive processes. |
Hermann Ebbinghaus |
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For Brentano, the primary research method was |
observation |
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Wundtian psychology in Germany was slow to develop because |
it was not seen as having practical value |
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For Wundt, feelings are |
based on three dimensions including pleasure/displeasure |
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According to Wundt, there were two elementary forms of experience, namely |
sensation and feelings |
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The fundamental purpose of creating nonsense syllables was to |
control for previous learning |
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The ultimate fate of Wundt’s laboratory at Leipzig was that it |
was destroyed by allied bombing raids in World War II |
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Wundt’s modification of introspection was the |
use of experimental controls |
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The significance of Ebbinghaus’s work is in his |
rigorous use of experimental control and his quantitative analysis of data |
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Wundt established psychology as distinct from philosophy primarily in terms of its |
use of the experimental method |
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____ work on ____ was the first "venture into a truly psychological problem area" rather than on physiology. |
Ebbinghaus’; learning |
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Wundt’s doctrine of apperception refers to |
the process of organizing mental elements into a whole |
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