History n Systems Exam 3 pt 1

Which of these things characterize William James' ideas and contributions?

• Founder of American psychology

• "Principles of Psychology" and "The Principles"

• individualism and pluralism (believed in free will)

• moral holidays

• "Principles of Physiological Psychology"

Those who believe that they have the absolute truth, manifested in these _______ that would lead to absolutist one-size-fits-all philosophies that overlook complexities and nuances

• moral holidays; William James

• moral holidays; Hugo Munsterberg

• chronometry; Wilhelm Wundt

• operant conditioning; B. F. Skinner

Which of these characterize William James' ideas and contributions?

• Functionalism

• "What people ought to do and should do" influenced many of his writings and books

• multiple levels of analysis and radical empiricism

• definition of psychology: science of mental life, both its phenomena and of their conditions

• molar behavior, large units of behavior found in the world (this was viewed as goal-directed)

This man believed that “the goal of education was instilling good habits”

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

• G. Stanley Hall

• Franz Brentano

"The only thing that shall be debatable among philosophers shall be definable in terms drawn from experience" or that ______ means that things that are experienced must not be ignored

• radical empiricism; William James

• voluntaristic psychology; Wilhelm Wundt

• applied psychology; Hugo Munsterberg

• connectionism; Edward Thorndike

Which of the following are consistent with the "stream of thought" idea

• personal and owned (thoughts)

• constantly changing (experience of consistency is an illusion)

• continuity of thought and cognitive (conveys a sense of something other than itself)

• selective/discriminatory (can’t be impartial in terms of how we direct our interest/attention)

• immediate conscious experience (precise control in laboratory settings)

Answer explanation

This was a thought process from William James!

Embodied our emotion; our physiological reactions happen first and this creates the emotional experience (each emotion has a unique biological fingerprint)

• James-Lange theory

• "Principles of Physiological Psychology" by Wilhelm Wundt

• act psychology by Franz Brentano

• personalism

Which things characterized Wilhelm Wundt's theory and contributions?

• Functionalism

• "Principles of Physiological Psychology"

• sociocultural psychology: Volkerpsychologie (anthropology, psycho-linguistics, forensic psychology, psychology of religion, personality, and social psychology)

• voluntaristic psychology (psychological processes related to the will or voluntary effort; creative synthesis, psychic causality, and apperception

• complemented methodological behaviorism with radical behaviorism

Answer explanation

He was not a functionalist. He believed in something called voluntaristic psychology. He also is not included in the Functionalism section of the book. So...this is how I drew this conclusion :)

Which of these characterized Wilhelm Wundt's theory and contributions?

• definition of psychology "a science that investigates the facts of consciousness"; the elements of consciousness and psychic compound

• immediate conscious experience (precise control in the lab), used internal perception as a form of self-report, and higher mental processes (precise control not possible outside lab) which included thinking, language, culture, and social psychology

• sensation, association, and apperception

• tridimensional theory of feeling

• defined psychology as “a purely experimental branch of natural science” with the goal of “ the prediction and control of behavior”

The principle of __________ is the belief that there are inherent indeterminations in psychic compounds. In other words, there is real novelty and creativity in higher mental operations.

• creative synthesis; Wilhelm Wundt

• object science; B.F. Skinner

• natural science; John Watson

• molar behavior; Edward Tolman