Chapter 5

Question 1

Program of study where the speed of information processing was measured and then inferences about the basic elements of consciousness would follow

Answer 1

Mental chronometry

Question 2

Branch of psychology that uses comparative and historical methods rather than experiments

Answer 2

Völkerpsychologie

Question 3

Into which three general areas did Wundt’s early experimentel research at the University of Leipzig fall?

Answer 3

1. Psychophysics
2. Studies of the time sense
3. Mental chronometry

Question 5

The observation and reporting of one’s own inner experience

Answer 5

Introspection

Question 6

What four categories did Wundt put sensations in?

Answer 6

1. Mode
2. Qualities
3. Intensities
4. Durations

Question 7

According to which three basic dimensions did Wundt classify feelings?

Answer 7

1. Pleasantness-unpleasantness
2. Tension-relaxation
3. Activity-passivity

Question 8

What introspective approach did Titchener advocate for?

Answer 8

Structuralism

Question 9

The imposition of meaning or interpretation on the subject

Answer 9

Stimulus error

Question 10

What two kinds of experiences that subjects reported did Külpe find important, but were found arguable by Wundt?

Answer 10

1. Imageless thought
2. Direct association - mental sets