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How could different personal equations be explained according to Wundt?
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Individual differences in lenghts of the sensory and motor nerves or in the speed with which those nerves transmit impulses
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Which topics did Wundt's Contribution to the theory of sensory perception cover?
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Vision, unconscious inference and reaction time.
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What is Völkerpsychologie?
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A type of nonexperimental psychology that deals with the communal and cultural products of human nature
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What were the most important statements in Principles of Psychology?
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Wundt defined a new domain of science, he conjoined psychology and physiology. And he provided detailed examples of how this could be accomplished.
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What three general areas did Wundt study in his laboratory in Leipzig and what do they mean?
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1. Psychophysical studies: Fechner's Law
2. Studies of the time sense: amount of time stimuli had to be seperated to be recognized as distinct 3. Mental chronometry: substraction method |
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How did Wundt define perception and apperception?
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Perception: responding to a stimulus --> automatically, thoughtlessly, mechanically
Apperception: full attention on stimulus |
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How are apperception and perception different when it comes to organization and combination?
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Perception: organized automatically, mechanically, associations, of past experince
Apperception: combined and organized in many ways, may not be experienced (creative synthesis, psychic causality) |
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What is voluntaristic psychology?
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The approach that the 'thing' that is responsible for apperception is closely involved with the conscious experiences of will and voluntary effort
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How was Wundt's approach to psychology two sided?
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1. He had a deterministic, mechanistic and experimental approach of new psychology to (simple) central psychological processes
2. He relied on nonexperimental techniques when it came to complex and central functions |
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Which three basic dimensions did Wundt use to classify feelings?
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pleasantness-unpleasantness, tension-relaxation, activity-passivity
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Why did Titchener call his introspective approach structuralism?
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He believed a psychologists' first task should be to discover the structure of the phenomena they dealt with before concerning themselves with the functions
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How is Titchener's approach when it came to introspection?
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A procedure that had to be trained, all of the mental contents should be reduced to their most basic elements (No stimulus error: imposition of meaning or interpretation of their subject)
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