Experimental Psychology Study Set 1

Which of the following is NOT an important goal of psychophysiology?

The writings of Descartes

Many of the early German physiologists in the nineteenth century believed that forces in the human were

Which of the following individuals was NOT a British empiricist philosopher?

Helmholtz calculated the rate of nervous impulses to be

In his reaction?time experiments, Helmholtz found __________ in reaction?time in __________.

Who founded the important discipline of psychophysics?

Wilhelm Wundt has been credited with establishing

Ebbinghaus completed pioneering experiments on

The structuralist school of psychology attempted to understand

Which of the following schools relied predominantly on the method of introspection?

Which of the following psychologists was a behaviorist?

Which of the following schools rivaled the structuralist school?

According to the theory called __________, the body is governed by physical laws but the mind is not.

Dualism refers to

Early experiments on the speed of neural transmission demonstrated that

Weber's law can be used to predict

Parallel distributed processing (PDP) refers to

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) refers to

Which of the following is true of behaviorism?