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Völkerpsychologie can be viewed as a forerunner of modern psycholinguistics and sociocultural psychology.

A) True
B) False

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According to Wundt, the task of experimental psychology is to


A) analyze conscious compounds into elements
B) deal with sociocultural phenomena
C) study how association produces creative synthesis
D) analyze psychic causality

E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

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For Wundt, apperception is bringing conscious contents to attention.

A) True
B) False

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Wundt proposed that feelings can be characterized along three dimensions: pleasant-unpleasant, tension-release, and excitement-calm.

A) True
B) False

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Wundt exemplified all eight of Muenzinger's trends.

A) True
B) False

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What were Wundt's categories of association?

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For Wundt, the subject matter of psychology is mediated experience.

A) True
B) False

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Summarize Wundt's position on mental compounds and their constituent elements.

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For what purpose did Wundt believe the experimental method is preferred?

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Wundt's publications included


A) all of these
B) books on human physiology and medical physics
C) books on philosophy
D) a series of volumes on Völkerpsychologie

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Among Wundt's American students were


A) all of these
B) S. Hall, who founded the APA
C) Titchener, who developed structuralism at Cornell.
D) Warren, who wrote a dictionary of psychology

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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Wundt advocated experimental methods for higher mental processes and naturalistic observation for basic psychological processes.

A) True
B) False

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How should trained psychologists, according to Wundt, be used in psychological experiments?

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Wundt advocated that


A) psychology should study immediate experience
B) physics is the study of immediate experience
C) natural science is limited to physics, chemistry, and biology
D) psychology should study mediated experience

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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Describe Wundt's childhood and education.

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\(\bullet\)he was a poor student \(\bullet\)had indifferent parents \(\bullet\)earned an MD \(\bullet\)studied with o Müller o Helmholtz

For what purpose did Wundt believe that naturalistic observation is the preferred method?

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How did Wundt's work relate to Muenzinger's eight trends? Viewable by instructor only Answers to short answer questions for Chapter 6: Wilhelm Wundt

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What were Wundt's elements of experience?

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\(\bullet\)sensations \(\bullet\)feelings, characterized along the dimensions of o unpleasant-pleasant o tension-release o and excitement-calm

Contrast mediated and immediate experience.

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Who were some of the antecedents of Wundt's Völkerpsychogie?

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blured imageGoethe
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