Test 3 - Final

Alfred Binet - classified the kids of Paris

Carl Stumpf - Clever Hans

Thorndike - Puzzle box

G. Stanley Hall - invited Freud to US

Vaihinger - As if

Dewey - The Research arc concept in psychology

Watson - psychology as the behaviorist views it

Terman - developed the Stanford-Binet

Mary Cover Jones -  desensitized Peter (w Watson)

Wundt - mental chronometry


  1. From the experiment w the pendulum clock, Wundt concluded that 

    1. Experimental psychology must stress selective attention

  2. Wundt believed that feelings are

    1. Various combos of 3 attributes

  3. According to Donders, the time it takes to perform the mental act of discrimination is determined by 

    1. Subtracting simple reaction time from the reaction time that involves discrimination

  4. According to Wundt’s principle of _____, something usually occurs during goal-directed behavior that changes the entire motivational pattern

    1. Development of opposites

  5. For Titchener, if a person allowed the meaning of an object to influence his/her introspective analysis of that object, it was a 

    1. Stimulus error

  6. What term did Brentano use ot describe the fact that every mental act refers to something outside itself?

    1. Intentionality

  7. Which of the following best characterizes Cattell’s approach to intelligence

    1. He believed that systematic measurement was essential to the study of intelligence

  8. The goal of the 1905 version of the Binet-Simon scale of intelligence was to

    1. Distinguish bw normal and kids w ID

  9. Which of the following was true of Spearman

    1. He believed intelligence was largely inherited

  10. The major conclusion from Terman’s study of genius was that

    1. Gifted children became gifted adults

  11. During which stage of early American psychology was the statement “psychology exists for the sake of logic and logic exists for the sake of God” true

    1. Stage 1: moral and mental philosophy

  12. According to _____, an idea should be evaluated in terms of its usefulness

    1. Pragmatism

  13. For James _______, for Munsterberg _____

    1. Ideas cause behavior; behavior causes ideas

  14. According to James, what keeps people working at boring jobs and also keeps the social strata from mixing?

    1. Habit

  15. Hall believed that each individual in his/her lifetime reenacted all the evolutionary stages of the human species. What is this called?

    1. Recapitulation theory

  16. Dewey believed the best way to learn is by

    1. Engaging in the activities to be learned

  17. A major problem w the animal research performed by _____ was that it depended on anecdotal evidence and was characterized by anthropomorphizing

    1. Romanes

  18. Thorndike’s identical elements theory of transfer states that

    1. The extent to which info learned in 1 situation will transfer to another situation is determined by the similarity bw the 2 situations

  19. With their research on Albert, Watson & Rayner demonstrated that 

    1. Emotions could be displaced to a stimuli other than those that had originally elicited the emotions

  20. For Watson, thinking is

    1. Internal speech