PSYC 319 Exam 2
The book "Principles of Physiological Psychology" was published in 1973
False
Wilhelm Wundt is credited as the founder of Psychology.
True
Wundt believed the mind actively organizes the content of consciousness
True
Wundt used the term "elements" to suggest psychology was like the natural sciences
True
The subject matter of Wundt's psychology was consciousness
True
Wilhelm Wundt is the ____ of psychology as a discipline.
a. Originator
b. Founder
c. Forerunner
d. Antecedent
Wundt's productivity as a writer can be quantified by his output, which averaged ____.
a. 1.5 pages a day for approximately 25 years
b. 4.7 pages a day for approximately 15 years
c. 2.2 pages a day for over 50 years
d. Just about 1 page a day for his working life
e. 5 pages a day for over 50 years
Wundt established psychology as distinct from philosophy primarily in terms of its ____.
a. Focus on behavior
b. Use of the experimental model
c. Use of the deduction and induction
d. Subject matter
e. Emphasis on physiology
What book marks the "literary birth" of the new science of psychology?
a. Fechner's Elements of Psychophysics (1860)
b. Fechner's Elements of Psychophysics (1860) and Wundt's Contributions to the
Theory of Sensory Perception (1858-1862)
c. Helmholtz's Handbook of Physiological Optics (1856-1866)
d. Wundt's Contributions to the Theory of Sensory Perception (1858-1862)
e. Müller's Handbook of Physiology of Mankind (1833-1840)