Psychology is defined as the discipline concerned

41. _______________ is revered by psychologists because his laboratory was the first to have its results published in a scholarly journal.

a. René Descartes

b. Aristotle

c. Sigmund Freud

d. Wilhelm Wundt

42. Researchers in Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory studied:

a. phrenology.

b. psychology.

c. sociology.

d. chemistry.

43. Your textbook discusses a famous laboratory set up in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. The goal of this laboratory was the study of:

a. psychology.

b. phrenology.

c. sociology.

d. chemistry.

44. The research method used by Wilhelm Wundt in which volunteers were taught to carefully observe, analyze, and describe their own sensations, mental images, and emotional reactions is called _______________.

a. critical thinking

b. trained introspection

c. experimentation

d. conceptual proliferation

45. The goal of trained introspection, a research method in psychology popularized by Wilhelm Wundt, was to:

a. break down behaviors into their most basic elements.

b. determine the strongest character trait in an individual.

c. learn by listening intently to individuals with psychological disorders.

d. feel bumps on a person’s head and accurately determine character traits.

46. _______________ is a research method popularized by Wilhelm Wundt in which trained volunteers take as long as 20 minutes to report their inner experiences during a 1.5-second experiment.

a. Conceptual proliferation

b. Critical thinking

c. Experimentation

d. Trained introspection

47. Most psychologists eventually rejected the method of trained introspection in psychological research as being too:

a. objective.

b. subjective.

c. expensive.

d. time-consuming.

48. In America, Wilhelm Wundt’s ideas were popularized by one of his students, E. B. Titchener, who gave Wundt’s approach the name:

a. structuralism.

b. psychoanalysis.

c. functionalism.

d. behaviorism.

49. In America, Wilhelm Wundt’s ideas were popularized by one of his students, _______________, who gave Wundt’s approach the name “structuralism.”

a. Sigmund Freud

b. John Watson

c. William James

d. E. B. Titchener

50. Which of the following approaches was popular during the early days of modern psychology?

a. the structuralist perspective

b. the cognitive perspective

c. the feminist perspective

d. the sociocultural perspective