Unit 3 Quiz Flashcards
Fechner called the lowest intensity at which a stimulus could be detected the:
a. differential threshold
b. absolute threshold
c. just noticeable difference
d. petites perceptions
b
Helmholtz found that when individuals who had been blind since birth acquired sight they:
a. needed to learn to perceive
b. immediately perceived normally
c. could perceive normally only while wearing distorted lenses
d. could never perceive normally
a
Bell is given first-name credit on the Bell-Magendie law because: a. he conducted and published the research for a wide audience first
b. he did all of the research and Magendie just confirmed what he had found
c. he conducted the research and distributed it to small group of friends via a pamphlet
d. Magendie actually should have been given full credit of for the law
c
What did Flourens’s brain research reveal that was incompatible with phrenology?
a. there were many localized cortical functions
b. there was some localizations in the subcortical areas of the brain
c. the cortical area of the brain functioned as a whole
d. there were vast individual differences among human brains
c
Helmholtz changed slightly the colour vision theory of ____ and supported it with experimental evidence
a. Kant
b. Hering
c. Young
d. Weber
c
Using the method of ____, the subject is instructed to adjust a variable stimulus so that its magnitude appears to equal that of a standard stimulus. After this, the average difference between the variable stimuli and the standard is determined
a. adjustment
b. limits
c. constant fixation
d. stimulus fixation
a
Gall believed all of the following except
a. there was a relationship between the size of the cortex and intelligence
b. the faculties of the mind were located in specific locations
c. the bumps and indentations on the skull could be used to measure the magnitude of the underlying faculties
d. the mind functioned as an indivisible whole
d
Examining the protrusions and depressions on a person’s skull to determine the strengths of his or her faculties was called:
a. monadology
b. faculty psychology
c. craniology
d. phrenology
d
The part of the cortex known as Wernicke’s area is associated with:
a. speech comprehension
b. visual analysis
c. speech articulation
d. motor movement differentiation
a
Helmholtz and many of his colleagues believed all of the following except:
a. the same laws apply to living and non-living things
b. nothing needed to be excluded from scientific analysis
c. as useful as science was, it could never investigate the ‘life force’
d. humans were complex machines made of material substances
c
According to Husserl, experimental psychology,
a. was impossible
b. the only valid type of psychology
c. must precede a search for the essence of consciousness
d. must be preceded by a careful, rigorous phenomenological analysis
d
According to Wundt, sciences like physics were based on ___ experience, whereas psychology should be based on ____ experience.
a. immediate; mediate
b. mediate; immediate
c. sensory; emotional
d. sensory; physiological
b
Which of the following did Wundt believe about experimental psychology?
a. it was useless in understanding higher mental processes
b. it represented the only worthwhile type of psychology
c. it was impossible
d. it could be used only to investigate the higher mental processes
a
Wundt believed that in effective verbal communication all of the following must occur except:
a. the speaker must apperceive his or her own general impression
b. both the speaker and the listener must use the same words and sentence structures
c. the listener must apperceive the speaker’s general impression
d. the speaker must choose words that will effectively express his or her general impression
b
Which of the following philosophies most influenced Wundt?
a. materialism
b. rationalism
c. empiricism
d. sensationalism
b
