Test Bank For A History of Modern Psychology 5th Edition by C. James Goodwin

Test Bank For A History of Modern Psychology 5th Edition by C. James Goodwin

1. Multiple Choice

NOTE:   The following items also appear in the online study guide that is available to students:

8, 11, 16, 19, 26, 38, 48, 53

1. In the 19th century the German system of higher education developed a philosophy that came to be known as Wissenschaft. It featured
2. an emphasis on scholarly and scientific research
3. a strictly prescribed set of course requirements to earn the doctorate
4. fairly severe restrictions on academic freedom
5. more emphasis on undergraduate teaching than on research

2. Johan Herbart was an important predecessor to experimental psychophysics. He believed that
3. the mind should be studied using laboratory experiments, not pure mathematics
4. ideas with different strengths could be assigned different mathematical weights
5. ideas had measurable “strength,” and these strengths were constant (unchangeable)
6. psychology, in order to be scientific, had to be closely tied to physiology

3. If your total cognitive focus is on this multiple choice item, then Herbart would say the item is part of your
4. apperceptive mass
5. repressed awareness
6. above-threshold awareness
7. just noticeable difference

4. According to Weber’s Law, if a person notices a difference between 30 and 33 grams, that person will also notice a difference between
5. 60 and 63 grams
6. 90 and 93 grams
7. 10 and 13 grams
8. all of these

5. In a weight-judging study, Sally just barely notices a difference between two weights of 30 and 33 grams. Weber’s Law predicts that she will also notice the difference between
6. 60 and 63 grams
7. 90 and 93 grams
8. both 60 and 63 grams and 90 and 93 grams
9. none of these

6. If someone cannot detect a difference in weight between 30 grams and 32 grams, but can tell the difference between 30 grams and 33 grams, the discrimination between 30 and 33 grams is called
7. a two-point threshold
8. a limits threshold
9. a jnd
10. a limit

7. While studying visual afterimages, I inadvertently looked too long at the sun and seriously damaged my eyes, to the extent that I had to take a medical leave from work. Who am I?
8. Johan Herbart
9. Hermann Ebbinghaus
10. Oswald Külpe
11. Gustav Fechner

8. Hearing tests, which present sequences of tones that steadily decrease in loudness, are using a method closest to which of the following developed by Fechner?
9. adjustment
10. limits
11. constant stimuli
12. fractionation

9. The subject has the greatest degree of control over stimulus presentation in which of the following methods of psychophysics?
10. method of limits
11. method of constant stimuli
12. method of apperception
13. method of adjustment

10. Boring referred to Fechner as the “inadvertent founder of psychophysics.” What did he mean by that?
11. Fechner stumbled on psychophysics by accident (he happened to read Weber’s work)
12. Fechner deliberately downplayed Weber’s work in order to gain all the credit himself
13. Fechner was more interested in destroying materialism than in establishing a science
14. when Fechner first started studying thresholds, he didn’t realize the later applications of his

work (e.g., vision testing)