WSU Psych 401 Exam 2 Questions With Correct Answers

WSU Psych 401 Exam 2 Questions With
Correct Answers

Titchner, Edward - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Leader of experimental psych
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- Understand structure of consciousness
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- Promoted Structuralism: focus on contents of experience
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- Wundt's student
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Titchner vs. Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Wundt: recognized the
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elements/contents of consciousness but was concerned with their organization.
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Believed the mind had the power to organize mental elements voluntarily.
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Titchener: focused on mental elements. Believed elements were mechanically
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linked through association.
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Proper subject matter of psych - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of mental
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processes of NORMAL ADULT HUMANS through introspection analysis under
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experimental control |




Experience = All knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Dependent on person,
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nervous system, and point of view.
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Goal of Psychology (Structuralism - Titchner) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Analyze
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structure of mind: | |




- What is there?
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,- In what quantity?
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Methods - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Systematic introspection
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- Introspection analysis under experimental control
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Point of View (POV) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Only 1 observable universe
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- Biology, psych, physics
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- Observer must specify POV and be consistent
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- Mixing up POV with in a given observations - incompatible/ inconsistent
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contents
- Leads to Stimulus Error
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Stimulus error (titchner) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mix knowledge about physical
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stimulus (physical view) with consciousness
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Smallest unit of consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Structure of
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consciousness


How to study consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Describe conscious
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experience, not meanings derived from immediate points in time
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Characteristics of mental elements - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-quality, intensity,
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time, clearness (attention, looking to)
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, Criticisms of Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Introspection not a scientific
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technique |




-People had difficulty describing some kinds of inner experiences
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*These drawbacks led to the development of newer approaches
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Contributions of Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Psychology as a lab
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science
- Some introspections survives today
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- Influenced Watson
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| a. reductionistic method to predict control behavior
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| b. generalized opposition caused birth of new ideas
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Zeitgeist (Functionalism) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Biology, evolutionary influences
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Darwin's influence on Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- What is the function
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or consciousness?
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- Interests in animals mental functions
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| a. connections between animals and humans?
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- Interests in individual differences
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Golton, Francis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Mental abilities are inherited (Eugenics)
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- Sensory discriminations measures
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- Mental testing
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