4.1 On
what basis did Wundt conclude that a person cannot engage in more than
one mental activity at precisely the same moment in time?
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4.2 Why is Wundt, and not Fechner, considered the founder of the new psychology?
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4.3 Describe the differences between “founding” and “originating” in science.
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4.4 Describe Wundt’s cultural psychology. How did it lead to division within psychology?
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4.5 Why did cultural psychology have little impact on American psychology?
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4.6 How
was Wundt’s psychology influenced by the work of the German
physiologists and the British empiricists? Describe the concept of
voluntarism.
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4.7 What are elements of consciousness? What is their role in mental life?
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4.8 Distinguish between mediate and immediate experience.
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4.9 Describe Wundt’s methodology and his rules for introspection. Did he favor quantitative or qualitative introspection? Why?
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4.10 Distinguish between internal and external perception. What is the purpose of apperception?
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4.11 How did apperception relate to the work of James Mill and John Stuart Mill?
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4.12 Trace the fate of Wundtian psychology in Germany. On what grounds was Wundt’s system criticized?
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4.13 Describe Ebbinghaus’s research on learning and memory. How was it influenced by the work of Fechner?
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4.14 How does Brentano’s act psychology differ from Wundtian psychology?
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4.15 How did Stumpf differ with Wundt on introspection and on the reduction of experience to elements?
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4.16 What did Külpe mean by systematic experimental introspection? How did Külpe’s approach differ from Wundt’s?
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4.17 How did the idea of imageless thought challenge Wundt’s conception of conscious experience?
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4.18 Despite their many differences, what did the works of Wundt, Ebbinghaus, Brentano, and Stumpf have in common?
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