Psych Overview: U2 Ch5

Question 1

What was the new field Wundt established

Answer 1

Experimental Psychology

Question 2

what branches of psychology is he considered to be the “father” or founder of?

Answer 2

Modern academic and experimental psychology

Question 3

The use of response times in psychophysical studies to measure the speed of information processing and to make inferences about the components of consciousness and other central processes.

Answer 3

Mental Chronometry

Question 4

two branches of the study of psychology according to Wundt.

Answer 4

1. Experimental psychology and
2. Social Psychology: Wundt meant to signify a type of non-experimental psychology that deals with the communal and cultural products of human nature: religions, mythologies, customs, and, above al, languages and their derivative higher processes.

Question 5

Know the name of Wundt’s famous book

Answer 5

Principles of Physiological Psychology

Question 6

why the date 1879 is important in the history of psychology.

Answer 6

first working research laboratory explicitly devoted to experimental psychology

Question 7

The observation and reporting of one’s own subjective “inner experience”

Answer 7

Introspection

Question 8

emphasized first the discovery of the “structure” of mental phenomena before looking at their “function.”

Answer 8

Titchener’s Structuralism