Chapter 7 Quiz

I succeeded Angell as head of the department at Chicago and was known for doing a lot of maze learning research (I even had a type of maze named after me.) Who am I?

Harvey Carr

According to Chicago’s James Angell, as articulated in his APA presidential address,

Reducing consciousness to its elements fails to capture the importance of consciousness for everyday life

Which of the following is true about Thorndike’s explanation for how his cats escaped from the puzzle boxes?

behaviors that “worked” to enable to cat to escape were said to be “stamped in”

Titchener’s Manuals could be used today, most likely in which course?

Sensation and perception

Which of the following would you be most surprised to see on a list of mental tests compiled by Cattell?

Differntiate word meaning

By changing S-R to S-O-R, Woodworth was asserting that

Theories must consider the importance of internal factors like motivation when predicting behavior

If you happened to be enrolled in a drill course in 1910, what would your experience be like?

You would replicate classic studies, probably with Titchener’s Manuals as your guide

In Titchener’s drill courses, the term observer referred to

The person participating in the experiment and contributing introspective data to it

What did Wissler find in his study of Cattell’s mental tests at Columbia?

Both the tests were unrelated to academic performance and the tests were unrelated to each other

All of the following characterize Titchener’s system except

An interest in studying individual differences in adult conscious experience

A way to contrast structuralism and functionalism is to say that the former asks the question “what is the mind?” while the latter asks the question “what is the mind for?”. This way of describing the difference between structuralism and functionalism was suggested in

A speech given at an APA conference

In the controversy between Baldwin and Titchener, what was the main issue?

The level of training required before someone could introspect

Thorndike’s puzzle box research was criticized by comparative psychologists like Wesley Mills on the grounds that

Thorndike’s cats were in a panic situation and could not act intelligently, as they would if put into a more natural environment

According to Titchener, every sensation includes the attribute(s) of

Intensity, quality, and duration

Meetings of Titchener’s Experimentalists featured

Informal presentations and aparatus demonstrations

In his study of mental testing at Columbia, Wissler found which of the following to be most highly correlated with the students’ academic grades?

Score in gym class

Titchener believed that it was important to understand

The generalized adult mind

In his 1898 paper on “The Postulates of a Structural Psychology”, Titchener argued that

The basic sturcture of the mind must be understood before function

According to Woodworth and Thorndike’s work on transfer,

The amount of transfer is proportional to the amount of similarity between task 1 and task 2

The Chicago and Columbia functionalists all had a number of things in common. Which of the following was not one of them?

They rejected the usefulness of introspection as a method

For Titchener, the basic elements of human conscious experience are

Sensations, images, and feelings