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History of Psychology, 4/e
David Hothersall, Ohio State University

Edward Titchener and Hugo Maunsterberg

Multiple Choice



1

Both Titchener and Münsterberg emigrated to (the) ___________________ in ________.
A)Germany; 1892
B)United States; 1892
C)Germany; 1879
D)United States; 1879
2

Titchener’s career was spent primarily at ________, while Münsterberg’s was at_______.
A)Cornell; Harvard
B)Harvard; Leipzig
C)Oxford; Cambridge
D)Cambridge; Oxford
3

“The Effects of Binocular and Monocular Stimuli” was the dissertation title of ______.
A)Münsterberg
B)Washburn
C)Wundt
D)Titchener
4

The psychology laboratory at Cornell was established in 1891 by ________.
A)Titchener
B)Münsterberg
C)Angell
D)Washburn
5

Which of the following statements about Margaret Washburn is/are true?
A)She was Titchener’s first graduate student
B)She was Münsterberg’s first graduate student
C)She was the first American woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
D)Both A and C
6

Prior to studying with Titchener, Washburn studied for a year with _____.
A)Münsterberg
B)Wundt
C)Cattell
D)Helmholtz
7

The book Animal Mind was written by _______ about _________.
A)Münsterberg; criminals
B)Titchener; Functionalism
C)Washburn; comparative psychology
D)Darwin; evolution
8

What qualities made one suitable as a source of data in Titchener’s laboratory?
A)You must be a normal, healthy, adult
B)You must have had huge amounts of past experience with introspection
C)You must have never participated in research in his lab before
D)Both A and B
9

A proper Titchenerian introspection of an immediate experience will include only
A)Sensations
B)Images
C)Feelings
D)All of the above
10

Perhaps the most enduring contribution(s) of Edwin G. Boring was/were
A)his founding of the American Psychological Association
B)his 1929 book History of Experimental Psychology
C)his founding of the psychology laboratory at Harvard
D)All of the Above
11

Which of the following organizations did not exist in the first half of the 20th century?
A)American Psychological Society
B)American Psychological Association
C)Society of Experimental Psychology
D)Psychological Round Table
12

Who is most suitably described as “an Englishman by birth, a German by temperament and an American by residence”?
A)Wundt
B)Münsterberg
C)James
D)Titchener
13

Germany’s second psychological laboratory was established by ___________ at the University of ______________.
A)Wundt; Berlin
B)Titchener; Leipzig
C)Münsterberg; Freiburg
D)Kraepelin; Frankfurt
14

What was James’ intention when he invited Münsterberg to join the Harvard faculty?
A)James needed an able assistant to manage his laboratory’s daily affairs
B)James wanted to hand off his psychology laboratory in order to get back to philosophy
C)James needed someone to teach psychology classes so that he could spend more time in the lab
D)James was looking for a top psychologist to found a laboratory at Harvard
15

Münsterberg’s research interests might best be summarized as
A)applying psychological knowledge in the service of humanity
B)investigating the fundamental ingredients of the mind
C)identifying the links between people and the external world
D)formulating a set of methodologies for pure, basic research
16

Münsterberg conducted research in the area(s) of
A)Industrial psychology
B)Clinical psychology
C)Forensic psychology
D)All of the Above
17

How did Münsterberg’s psychotherapy compare to Freud’s psychoanalysis?
A)Münsterberg’s was clearly based on the teachings of Freud
B)Freud’s was clearly based on the teachings of Münsterberg
C)Münsterberg largely disagreed with Freud’s emphasis on the unconscious mind
D)Both treatments sought out repressed ideas, but with different techniques
18

Münsterberg wrote all of the following except
A) Psychotherapy
B) The Lie Detector Test
C) On the Witness Stand
D)Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
19

The psychology topics Münsterberg studied are ___________popular today than they were in his day, and the topics of Titchener are ___________ popular.
A)less; less
B)more; more
C)less; more
D)more; less
20

William McDougall raised controversy with his support of
A)introspection in children
B)parapsychology
C)the Lamarckian hypothesis of acquired characteristics
D)Both B and C