History of Psychology, Science and Profession.

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Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Pastor Unit 3. Birth of modern Psychology.

1. The zeitgeist for the emergence of a separate discipline of psychology was
prepared during the nineteenth century by
A. the philosophical tradition of Britain.
B. the success of post-Renaissance empiricism.
C. the support of national governments.
D. the support of church authorities.
E. the final triumph of deductive logic.
5. Wundt's Principles of Physiological Psychology contained
A. the justification for reducing psychology to physiology.
B. the justification for reducing psychology to psychophysics.
C. methodologies that were largely deductive in approach.
D. acceptance of various methods of empiricism.
E. a systematic justification for a new method of psychological inquiry.

2. Psychology emerged as a separate discipline in Germany 6. In Wundts psychology, consciousness was defined in terms of
because A. psychic phenomena.
A. British philosophy was hostile to the study of psychology. B. mental passivity.
B. French philosophy was hostile to the study of psychology. C. mediated experience.
C. German philosophy was hostile to the study of psychology. D. associations.
D. German philosophy was not in agreement with empiricism. E. immediate experience.
E. German philosophy readily accommodated empirical psychology.

3. "Psychology as a natural science" implies
A. the recognition of psychic phenomena of a dynamic nature.
B. a reliance on deductive methods.
C. the analytic study of variables under experimental scrutiny.
D. a reliance on non-empirical methods.
E. the equation of psychology with physics.
7. A major goal of the new psychology was to
A. determine the elements of consciousness.
B. describe psychic processes.
C. analyze the phenomena of consciousness.
D. determine the elements of mediated experience.
E. determine the stream of consciousness.

4. The subject matter of early psychology was the 8. The new experimental psychology accepted data from
A. analytic study of the adult human mind. A. phenomenology.
B. study of psychic phenomena expressed as acts and processes. B. metaphysics.
C. analytic study of mediated experience. C. introspection.
D. analytic study of higher thought processes. D. common sense.
E. analysis of sensations into stimulus dimensions. E. utilitarianism.

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History of Psychology, Science and Profession. Questions for assessment of learning/ active & self-managed learning
Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Pastor Unit 3. Birth of modern Psychology.

9. Self-Observation as the method of the new experimental psychology could 13. According to Wundts psychology, the primary mechanism in the
be conducted by combination of mental elements was
A. naive subjects. A. sensation.
B. any scientist. B. mediate experience.
C. psychological descriptions. C. immediate experience.
D. trained scientist. D. introspection.
E. only Wundt. E. association.

10.According to experimental psychology, thought must be accompanied by 14. Physiological psychology

A. images. A. succeeded in establishing introspection as a valid method.
B. sensations. B. pushed psychology into science.
C. introspections. C. served as the guiding force of twentieth-century psychology.
D. past associations. D. resolved the difference between empiricistic and nativistic positions.
E. perceptions. E. established the foundation of Gestalt psychology.

11.The dimension of feeling, agreed to by Wundt, was 15.Hering, Georg Mller, and Ebbinghaus
A. strength-weakness. A. all succeeded in establishing systematic positions on psychology.
B.* pleasant-unpleasant. B. were act psychologists.
C. strain-relaxation. C. accepted the value of introspection.
D. excitement-calm. D. were experimentalists rather than system builders.
E. conscious-unconscious. E. were students of Wundt.

12.Wundt extended Helmholtz's notion of unconscious inference to the creative 16.The goal of analyzing memory as Fechner had analyzed sensations was
process of pursued by
A. introspection. A. Helmholtz.
B. sensation. B. Hering.
C. perception. C. Ebbinghaus.
D. apperception. D. Wundt.
E. conscious inference. E. Mller.

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History of Psychology, Science and Profession. Questions for assessment of learning/ active & self-managed learning
Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Pastor Unit 3. Birth of modern Psychology.

21.A major goal of act psychology was to

17."Psychology as a human science" implies A. determine the elements of consciousness.
A. the recognition of psychic phenomena of a dynamic nature. B. describe psychic processes.
B. a reliance on deductive methods. C. analyze the phenomena of consciousness.
C. the analytic study of variables under experimental scrutiny. D. determine the elements of mediated experience.
D. a reliance on non-empirical methods. E. determine the stream of consciousness.
E. the equation of psychology with physics.
22.The major impact of Brentano's act psychology
18.The subject matter of act psychology was the A. succeeded in a definitive model for twentieth-century psychology.
A. analytic study of the adult human mind. B. was its opposition to phenomenology.
B. study of psychic phenomena expressed as acts and processes. C. was exerted through his students.
C. analytic study of mediated experience. D. was its repudiation of empiricism.
D. analytic study of higher thought processes. E. was its essential agreement with structural psychology.
E. analysis of sensations into stimulus dimensions.
23.Stumpf's views on psychology reflect the influence of
A. Helmholtz.
19.Brentano's Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint contained
B. Hering.
A. the justification for reducing psychology to physiology.
C. Husserl.
B. the justification for reducing psychology to psychophysics.
D. Wundt.
C. methodologies that were largely deductive in approach.
E. Brentano.
D. acceptance of various methods of empiricism.
E. a systematic justification for a new method of psychological inquiry.
24.The "imageless thought" controversy initiated by the Wrzburg School
A. seriously challenged the position of structural psychology.
20.In act psychology, consciousness was defined in terms of
B. seriously challenged the position of act psychology.
A. psychic phenomena.
C. resolved the problem of whether thoughts are accompanied by images.
B. mental passivity.
D. rescued introspection from repudiation.
C. mediated experience.
E. found support in the work of Titchener.
D. associations.
E. immediate experience.
25.The Wrzburg School served as a precursor for
A. structural psychology.
B. act psychology.
C. Gestalt psychology.
D. applied psychology.
E. behavioristic psychology.