Deck 6: Wilhelm Wundt

Question 1

Wilhelm Wundt had a demonstration laboratory in 1875 and an institute of psychology in 1879.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Wundt's Völkerpsychologie was published in 1875.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Wundt advocated experimental methods for higher mental processes and naturalistic observation for basic psychological processes.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

For Wundt, the subject matter of psychology is mediated experience.

Question 5

Wundt proposed that feelings can be characterized along three dimensions: pleasant-unpleasant, tension-release, and excitement-calm.

Question 6

For Wundt, apperception is bringing conscious contents to attention.

Question 7

Wundt argued that creative synthesis occurs according to the principles of fusion, assimilation, and complication.

Question 8

Völkerpsychologie can be viewed as a forerunner of modern psycholinguistics and sociocultural psychology.

Question 9

According to Wundt, psychic events follow different principles of causality than physical events.

Question 10

Wundt exemplified all eight of Muenzinger's trends.

Question 11

Concerning Wundt's education, it can be asserted

A) all of these
B) that he was a rather poor student
C) that he obtained an MD degree
D) that he studied with Müller and Helmholtz

Question 12

Wundt's publications included

A) all of these
B) books on human physiology and medical physics
C) books on philosophy
D) a series of volumes on Völkerpsychologie

Question 13

Wundt advocated that

A) psychology should study immediate experience
B) physics is the study of immediate experience
C) natural science is limited to physics, chemistry, and biology
D) psychology should study mediated experience

Question 14

According to Wundt, the task of experimental psychology is to

A) analyze conscious compounds into elements
B) deal with sociocultural phenomena
C) study how association produces creative synthesis
D) analyze psychic causality

Question 15

Wundt's three-dimensional theory of feeling

A) was controversial
B) was supported by correlated physiological studies
C) concentrated on the focus and field of consciousness
D) was fundamental to his Völkerpsychologie

Question 16

According to Wundt, apperception

A) is bringing conscious content to attention
B) brings the field of consciousness into focus
C) generates feelings of pleasantness and unpleasantness
D) is a result of creative synthesis

Question 17

Wundt's principles of association are

A) fusion, assimilation, and complication
B) contiguity, similarity, and contrast
C) apperception and creative synthesis
D) fusion of mediate and immediate experience

Question 18

Among Wundt's American students were

A) all of these
B) S. Hall, who founded the APA
C) Titchener, who developed structuralism at Cornell.
D) Warren, who wrote a dictionary of psychology

Question 19

Among Wundt's European students were

A) all of these
B) Kraepelin, who developed a classification of mental disorders
C) Külpe, associated with the Würzburg school
D) Lehmann, who studied physiological correlates of emotion

Question 20

Which of the following areas were studied by Wundt and his students?

A) all of these
B) reaction time
C) sensation and perception
D) attention

Question 21

For what purpose did Wundt believe the experimental method is preferred?

Question 22

For what purpose did Wundt believe that naturalistic observation is the preferred method?

Question 23

What did Wundt mean by "creative synthesis?"

Question 24

Contrast mediated and immediate experience.

Question 25

What were the results of empirical studies of Wundt's tri-dimensional theory of feelings?

Question 26

In Wundt's system, what is the relationship between attention and apperception?

Question 27

Distinguish between the focus and field of consciousness, according to Wundt.

Question 28

What were Wundt's categories of association?

Question 29

How are psychic and physical causality related, according to Wundt?

Question 30

How did Wundt's work relate to Muenzinger's eight trends?
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Question 31

Who were some of the antecedents of Wundt's Völkerpsychogie?

Question 32

What did Wundt mean by experimental self-observation?

Question 33

Summarize Wundt's position on mental compounds and their constituent elements.

Question 34

Describe Wundt's childhood and education.

Question 35

What were the topics to which Wundt devoted his books?

Question 36

What were the methods that Wundt advocated for psychology, and what were the main foci of each?

Question 37

How should trained psychologists, according to Wundt, be used in psychological experiments?

Question 38

What, according to Wundt, is psychology, and what is its task?

Question 39

What were Wundt's elements of experience?