Chapter 4 Flashcards
The New Psychology
Research suggests that many psychology historians consider ____ to be the most important psychologist of alltime.
Wundt
____ work on ____ was the first “venture into a truly psychological problem area” rather than on physiology.
Ebbinghaus’; learning
Ebbinghaus and König argued that psychology and physiology ____.
are inseparable halves of a new great double science
Which of the following are the three dimensions of Wundt’s tridimensional theory of feelings?
pleasure/displeasure; tension/relaxation; excitement/depression.
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint(1874) was the major contribution to psychology from ____.
Brentano
For Wundt, the subject matter of psychology was ____.
consciousness
Wilhelm Wundt is the ____ of psychology as a discipline.
Founder
For Wundt, the difference between sensations and images was ____.
nonexistent
Wundt’s termvoluntarismreflects his emphasis on the ____.
power of the will to organize the contents of the mind
Marbe and Watt extended the work and influence of the Würzburg school with their ____.
discovery of the influence of the unconscious mind
Ebbinghaus measured the rate of human learning by ____.
counting the number of repetitions needed for one perfect reproduction of the material
The psychological study of music was pioneered by ____.
Stumpf
What were the reasons for the decline of Wundt’s approach to psychology?
- German universities did not have the economic resources to support scientific psychology.
- Wundt’s approach represented a pure science of psychology with little opportunity for practical application.
- The pragmatic culture of the United States precluded Wundt’s system.
- Wundt’s approach was overshadowed by the development of Gestalt psychology in Germany and psychoanalysis in Austria.
The ultimate fate of Wundt’s laboratory at Leipzig was that it ____.
was destroyed by allied bombing raids in World War II
Ebbinghaus’s focus of study was on the ____.
initial formation of associations
