Multiple Choice


1	De Tactu was a book about _______________ written by ____________.
		A)	Visual perception; Wundt
		B)	Visual perception; Weber
		C)	Touch; Weber
		D)	Touch; Fechner


2	In Weber’s ratio, “k” describes
		A)	the just noticeable difference
		B)	the absolute threshold
		C)	the two-point discrimination threshold
		D)	Both C and D


3	What was the insight that came to Fechner on the morning of October 22, 1850?
		A)	That the relationship between mind and matter was stable and thus quantifiable.
		B)	The formula for the jnd.
		C)	That the two-point discrimination threshold varied for different parts of the body.
		D)	That memory could be quantified just as perception had been.


4	The typical stimuli in the majority of Ebbinghaus’ experiments were
		A)	black and white pictures
		B)	paired associates
		C)	random sentences extracted from newspapers
		D)	nonsense syllables


5	Ebbinghaus found that he could save time relearning stimuli if he
		A)	increased the number of study repetitions during the first learning session
		B)	reordered the list each time he studied it
		C)	did not overlearn the stimuli during the first session
		D)	All of the Above


6	Compared to Ebbinghaus’ research, Bartlett’s research was
		A)	better constructed in terms of clear independent and dependent variables
		B)	less formal in methodology
		C)	higher in ecological validity
		D)	Both B and C


7	Ebbinghaus created an early intelligence test involving ___________ tasks.
		A)	two-point discrimination threshold
		B)	memory span
		C)	analogy
		D)	All of the Above


8	Brentano’s psychology is usually described as a psychology of
		A)	ideas
		B)	ideals
		C)	acts
		D)	consequences


9	Brentano expected that his psychological findings would
		A)	continually change as the methods were improved
		B)	continually change because people are always evolving
		C)	never change, because they are based on rules of logic
		D)	Both A and B


10	What alternative(s) to introspection did Brentano propose?
		A)	reaction time experiments
		B)	recollections from memory
		C)	imagination
		D)	Both B and C


11	Who was the author of Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint who devised a contemporary alternative to Wundtian psychology based on mental acts?
		A)	Stumpf
		B)	Brentano
		C)	Münsterberg
		D)	Kulpe


12	Stumpf’s interest in ____________ influenced his psychology.
		A)	music
		B)	parapsychology
		C)	architecture
		D)	athletics


13	The “golden section” is a(n)
		A)	elite group of the graduating class from the University of Berlin
		B)	district in the city of Würzburg where Stumpf did his research
		C)	minimum proportion of a stimulus required to detect an increase in that stimulus
		D)	ratio of width to length that is judged most pleasing to the eye


14	Unlike many other perception researchers of his day, Stumpf held a _________ position.
		A)	mechanistic
		B)	empiricistic
		C)	nativistic
		D)	dualistic


15	Stumpf was a founder of which society/organization(s)?
		A)	German Psychological Association
		B)	Society for Child Psychology
		C)	The Music Therapy Society
		D)	All of the Above


16	The “Wurzburg school” is most closely associated with which person?
		A)	Stumpf
		B)	Külpe
		C)	Brentano
		D)	Müller


17	The term “apprehension” was used by Külpe to describe
		A)	hesitation caused by mental operations
		B)	failure to comprehend meaning; the opposite of comprehension
		C)	passive attention to those items outside the focus of attention
		D)	attention to relevant items but not irrelevant items in a set of stimuli


18	Research conducted by Moore and Külpe suggested that ______ came more quickly into consciousness than did _______.
		A)	meanings; images
		B)	images; meanings
		C)	feelings; images
		D)	images; feelings


19	All of the following people except ____ conducted research with Külpe.
		A)	Watts
		B)	Ach
		C)	Moore
		D)	Boring


20	Both Bühler and Woodworth reported finding evidence of
		A)	imageless thought
		B)	multiple intelligences
		C)	instantaneous perception
		D)	telekinesis

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