Exam 7: The Contemporary Scene in the Age of Wundt

Calkins's experiments with paired associates established the phenomena of reminiscence and eugenics.

Describe what Stumpf meant by phenomenology.

The physicist Ernst Mach argued that the data of all sciences are percepts.

What did the Würzburgers mean by "determining tendency" or set?

What did Brentano mean with his contrast between intrinsic completeness and immanent objectivity?

Brentano's act psychology argued that

List some of the important findings of students at the Würzburg school.

Stumpf's Berlin psychology laboratory

Why did McDougall call his psychology hormic or purposive? Viewable by instructor only Answers to short answer questions for Chapter 7: The Contemporary Scene in the Age of Wundt

What did Brentano and McDougall mean by "act psychology?"

What were Ebbinghaus's main methods for the experimental study of memory?

What was the most significant finding of the experiments performed by the Würzburg school?

Brentano's act psychology held that physical events have immanent objectivity while mental ones display intrinsic completeness.

Ewald Hering contributed

What was Brentano's distinction between crucial and systematic experiments?

What is the coefficient of correlation, and what role has it played in psychology?

Ward's tripartite psychology proposed that the basic psychological processes are

How is Hering's opponent-process theory consistent with the all-or-none law?

McDougall's "hormic" psychology

The "new" psychology of the late nineteenth century