Exam 8: The Psychology of Consciousness

The Gestalt view of perception was most influenced by the philosophical school of:

Match research method criticized or used by Wundt to its description. -Völkerpsychology

The Gestalt movement began by rejecting the "bundle hypothesis," which is what they called:

Gestalt psychologists called the assumption by philosophers since Descartes that every sensory element in consciousness corresponds to a physical stimulus the ____________ hypothesis.

According to the German sociologist Tonnies, the Bildungsburgers loved ______ and feared/hated _________.

Wundt criticized the Würzburg experiments on the grounds that:

One attitude of German psychologists themselves also inhibited the growth of psychology in Germany prior to WW II. This attitude was their belief that psychology:

In the text, it was suggested that many of the first psychologists, including Wundt, who first set foot on the path through physiology later abandoned it because:

For German Mandarin - Bildungsburgers, ___________ represented Gesellschaft at its worst.

E. B. Titchener had three experimental tasks for his psychology one of which was?

Although psychology got started as a science in Germany, it did not grow quickly, especially compared to psychology in America. Which of the following factors was MOST IMPORTANT in inhibiting the growth of psychology in Germany?

How does Wundt's distinction between experimental psychology and Volkerpsychologie reflect the older German distinction between natural and social science?

Describe the beliefs of the German "Mandarin" Bildungsburger values and explain the influence these values had on German psychology.

The author of the text states that Wundt remade psychology from a fitful enterprise of solitary scholars into a genuine scientific community. He did this in part by:

One reason psychology was slow to grow in Germany was:

The uniquely German concept of Bildung refers to:

Discuss why psychology was slow to grow in Germany yet was soon to flourish in America.

Oswald Külpe at Würzburg used the Ausfragen method to do experimental research on:

Franz Brentano's Act psychology:

Perception of the W shape in the figure at left illustrates the Gestalt law of perception: