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
According to Wundt, the stimulation of a sense organ sufficiently to have the nerve impulse reach the brain defines a(n) ____.
sensation
Stumpf’s method of observation was ____.
phenomenology-examining experience as it occurred and not trying to reduce it to it’s elementary components like Wundt did
In Wundt’s laboratory, introspection was used to assess ____.
immediate experience
Mediate experience was labeled and interpreted experience (labeling pain as a tooth ache)
While conducting his research, Ebbinghaus used ___?
1 single subject (himself) because he had no lab or university affiliation
What was “meaningless” for Ebbinghaus?
Each series of syllables created for his research
What was and who invented the Gedankenmesser or the “thought meter”
Wundt invented it. It was a pendulum that made a noise as it hit the side and after perceiving the sound as after seeing the peak he decided we could not perceive two stimuli at once.
What is apperception? Who’s Idea is it?
Wundt’s idea- an active process of organizing mental elements into a whole synthesized thing
What did Ebbinghaus find about learning meaningful syllables versus nonsense syllables?
Nonsense syllables were 9x harder to learn than meaningful syllables
What is Act psychology and who’s idea is it?
Brentano’s idea, concentrate on mental activities not the content. Study it empirically not experimentally
Ex. Redness vs the act of studying redness
