Exam 7: The Contemporary Scene in the Age of Wundt

Ebbinghaus's epoch-making experiments on memory were inspired by Fechner's Elements of Psychophysics.

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a pioneer in

Describe Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve.

Stumpf's Berlin psychology laboratory studied space perception, audition, and the psychology of music.

What do the following terms mean: remote associations, overlearning, retroactive inhibition, and reminiscence?

Rubin's distinction between figure and ground proposed that an attended item becomes the field of consciousness and the non-extended context becomes the focus.

Retroactive inhibition is a process of massed and distributed practice.

The doctrine of imageless thought that emerged from Külpe's Würzburg school

Ward's tripartite psychology proposed that the basic psychological processes are cognition, feeling, and conation.

What were the main contributions of Ebbinghaus's experiments on memory?

What were Jost's contributions to the psychology of memory?

What were the contributions of E. Müller's students: Jost, Katz, Ach, Jaensch, and Rubin?

Summarize Hering's color theory.

Contrast Brentano's act psychology with Wundt's system.

Which of the following was NOT a product of

For what purpose did Ebbinghaus invent nonsense syllables?

How did Hering propose that inorganic matter can exhibit memory?

To what extent did the "new" psychology of the late nineteenth century display Muenzinger's eight trends?

Galton's work in behavioral genetics

G. E. Müller, a systematic experimental psychologist, invented the memory drum.