PSYC 375 HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY FINAL PAPER 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Titchener defined ____ as the accumulated experiences of a lifetime - ✔✔The mind
✔✔In explaining how the elements of thought combine, Titchener emphasized: -
✔✔traditional associationism
✔✔Titchener formed "The Experimentalists" because: - ✔✔he believed the APA was
too friendly towards applied topics
✔✔According to Wundt, empiricism lacked an appreciation of: - ✔✔volitional processes
✔✔Which of the following best describes Vaihinger's attitude toward "fictions"? -
✔✔Without them, societal living would be impossible.
✔✔According to Husserl, experimental psychology: - ✔✔must be preceded by
phenomenological analysis
✔✔According to the text, the most important reason for the demise of structuralism was
its failure to: - ✔✔assimilate the doctrine of evolution
✔✔Wundt's concept of mental chronometry is: - ✔✔an accurate cataloging of the time it
took to perform various mental acts
✔✔Wundt's principle of ____ states that prolonged experiences of one type cause one
to seek the opposite type of experience. - ✔✔the development of opposites
✔✔The part of the perceptual field that the individual attends to is: - ✔✔apperceived
✔✔Wundt believed that schizophrenia might be explained as a breakdown of the: -
✔✔attentional processes
✔✔According to Donders, the time it takes to perform the mental act of discrimination is
determined by: - ✔✔subtracting simple reaction time from the reaction time that involves
discrimination
✔✔Wundt believed that feelings are: - ✔✔various combinations of three attributes
✔✔For Titchener, attention is: - ✔✔a clearness of sensation
✔✔According to Wundt, a(n) ____ occurs whenever a sense organ is stimulated and
the resulting impulse reaches the brain: - ✔✔sensation
, ✔✔Wundt believed that physical and psychological causality are: - ✔✔polar opposites
✔✔What term did Brentano use to describe the fact that every mental act refers to
something outside itself? - ✔✔intentionality
✔✔As evidence for his views on verbal communication, Wundt pointed out that we
remember ____ and not ____. - ✔✔meanings; specific words
✔✔According to Wundt's principle of ____, something almost always occurs during
goal-directed behavior that changes the entire motivational pattern - ✔✔the heterogony
of ends
✔✔For Titchener, the ____ of psychology involved a search for the neurological
correlates of mental events. - ✔✔why
✔✔Which of the following is true of Galton's "anthropometric laboratory"? - ✔✔He
studied male-female differences as well as the relationships among measures.
✔✔Which of the following did Wechsler contribute to intelligence testing? - ✔✔He
resolved some of the psychometric issues in earlier intelligence measures
✔✔Who was responsible for devising the coefficient of correlation (r)? - ✔✔Pearson
✔✔According to Spencer, the best government is one that: - ✔✔allows free competition
among all its citizens
✔✔Which of the following is most consistent with the ideas of Herrnstein and Murray's
book The Bell Curve? - ✔✔The best jobs with the highest pay go to the intellectual elite.
✔✔Which of the following did Burt believe? - ✔✔The "g" or general factor of intelligence
was largely inherited.
✔✔Yerkes believed that immigration ____. - ✔✔should be restricted so those with low
intelligence could be refused
✔✔According to Darwin, because there are many more offspring than can survive in a
given environment: - ✔✔there is a struggle for survival
✔✔When Wissler evaluated Cattell's measures of intelligence he found that they: -
✔✔were neither highly correlated with each other nor useful in predicting college
success
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Titchener defined ____ as the accumulated experiences of a lifetime - ✔✔The mind
✔✔In explaining how the elements of thought combine, Titchener emphasized: -
✔✔traditional associationism
✔✔Titchener formed "The Experimentalists" because: - ✔✔he believed the APA was
too friendly towards applied topics
✔✔According to Wundt, empiricism lacked an appreciation of: - ✔✔volitional processes
✔✔Which of the following best describes Vaihinger's attitude toward "fictions"? -
✔✔Without them, societal living would be impossible.
✔✔According to Husserl, experimental psychology: - ✔✔must be preceded by
phenomenological analysis
✔✔According to the text, the most important reason for the demise of structuralism was
its failure to: - ✔✔assimilate the doctrine of evolution
✔✔Wundt's concept of mental chronometry is: - ✔✔an accurate cataloging of the time it
took to perform various mental acts
✔✔Wundt's principle of ____ states that prolonged experiences of one type cause one
to seek the opposite type of experience. - ✔✔the development of opposites
✔✔The part of the perceptual field that the individual attends to is: - ✔✔apperceived
✔✔Wundt believed that schizophrenia might be explained as a breakdown of the: -
✔✔attentional processes
✔✔According to Donders, the time it takes to perform the mental act of discrimination is
determined by: - ✔✔subtracting simple reaction time from the reaction time that involves
discrimination
✔✔Wundt believed that feelings are: - ✔✔various combinations of three attributes
✔✔For Titchener, attention is: - ✔✔a clearness of sensation
✔✔According to Wundt, a(n) ____ occurs whenever a sense organ is stimulated and
the resulting impulse reaches the brain: - ✔✔sensation
, ✔✔Wundt believed that physical and psychological causality are: - ✔✔polar opposites
✔✔What term did Brentano use to describe the fact that every mental act refers to
something outside itself? - ✔✔intentionality
✔✔As evidence for his views on verbal communication, Wundt pointed out that we
remember ____ and not ____. - ✔✔meanings; specific words
✔✔According to Wundt's principle of ____, something almost always occurs during
goal-directed behavior that changes the entire motivational pattern - ✔✔the heterogony
of ends
✔✔For Titchener, the ____ of psychology involved a search for the neurological
correlates of mental events. - ✔✔why
✔✔Which of the following is true of Galton's "anthropometric laboratory"? - ✔✔He
studied male-female differences as well as the relationships among measures.
✔✔Which of the following did Wechsler contribute to intelligence testing? - ✔✔He
resolved some of the psychometric issues in earlier intelligence measures
✔✔Who was responsible for devising the coefficient of correlation (r)? - ✔✔Pearson
✔✔According to Spencer, the best government is one that: - ✔✔allows free competition
among all its citizens
✔✔Which of the following is most consistent with the ideas of Herrnstein and Murray's
book The Bell Curve? - ✔✔The best jobs with the highest pay go to the intellectual elite.
✔✔Which of the following did Burt believe? - ✔✔The "g" or general factor of intelligence
was largely inherited.
✔✔Yerkes believed that immigration ____. - ✔✔should be restricted so those with low
intelligence could be refused
✔✔According to Darwin, because there are many more offspring than can survive in a
given environment: - ✔✔there is a struggle for survival
✔✔When Wissler evaluated Cattell's measures of intelligence he found that they: -
✔✔were neither highly correlated with each other nor useful in predicting college
success
