PSYC 331 LATEST EXAM TEST 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Which of the following was the major technique used by Pierre Flourens in his
attempts to refute phrenological theory? - ✔✔experimental ablations from the brains of
animals
✔✔When you press gently on the side of your eyeball and experience the visual
sensation of colored light, you illustrate - ✔✔the law of specific nerve energies.
✔✔Who of the following was NOT a founder of the movement known as Gestalt
psychology? - ✔✔Ernst Weber
✔✔Which of the following was NOT true about Milner's patient H.M.? - ✔✔His
declarative memory remained relatively intact.
✔✔The smallest intensity of a stimulus that can be reliably detected, used by Fechner
as the "zero point" in his scale of subjective intensities, is called the - ✔✔absolute
threshold.
✔✔Wilder Penfield showed that the nature of an epileptic patient's aura is a function of
the - ✔✔location of the diseased focus at which the seizure begins.
✔✔As indicated by studies in Wundt's laboratory, what was the maximum number of
individual units that could be apperceived at once? - ✔✔4 to 6
✔✔Wundt's first book, published in 1862, was on the topic of - ✔✔sense perception
✔✔_______ was an accomplished American mathematician and vision researcher who
challenged Titchener's policies on his invitation-only group of Experimentalists. -
✔✔Christine Ladd-Franklin
✔✔According to Wundt, voluntaristic psychology was - ✔✔an approach to psychology
that described events working at the periphery of conscious experience, events such as
apperception, creative synthesis, psychic causality, and will.
✔✔Titchener insisted that introspectors should avoid imposing "meaning" or
"interpretation" on their subjects, thereby eliminating what he called - ✔✔the stimulus
error.
✔✔Ebbinghaus's finding that memory for a learned task drops off most steeply
immediately after the learning and then declines more slowly exemplifies the _______ -
✔✔forgetting curve
, ✔✔in recent years, Wundt's theories have been newly appreciated for their relevance to
which current psychological specialty? - ✔✔psycholinguistics
✔✔Who is often regarded as the "father" of modern academic and experimental
psychology? - ✔✔Wilhelm Wundt
✔✔Wundt's former student Oswald Külpe went on to establish his own laboratory which
conducted introspective experiments on __________, which Wundt objected to because
__________. - ✔✔imageless thought; the studies entailed introspection of mental tasks
that Wundt believed were too complex for accurate introspective analysis
✔✔Wundt did research with Robert Bunsen involving - ✔✔the effects of a salt-restricted
diet
✔✔What did Catherine Cox's biographical study of historical geniuses suggest? - ✔✔If
tests had been available, virtually all of them would have achieved high IQs in
childhood.
✔✔One of the purposes of Darwin's book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and
Animals, was to show that - ✔✔many human reactions with no obvious survival or
utilitarian value today did have an adaptive purpose in the evolutionary past.
✔✔Alfred Russel Wallace is known for which of the following? - ✔✔independently
developing the theory of evolution by natural selection and having a paper on it read
jointly with one by Darwin in 1858
✔✔The major purpose for which Galton devised the idea of intelligence tests was to -
✔✔select the most able young people for eugenic breeding.
✔✔In 1905, who developed the first test of intelligence with substantial validity? -
✔✔Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
✔✔As a result of organizing his data into __________, Galton noticed a pattern he
termed regression toward the mean. - ✔✔scatter plots
✔✔Charles Spearman theorized that all intellectual tasks must entail two kinds of
factors, a single common factor which he called __________ and a second kind that
focused on - ✔✔general intelligence; specific abilities
✔✔Who is credited with translating the Binet-Simon scale into English? - ✔✔Goddard
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Which of the following was the major technique used by Pierre Flourens in his
attempts to refute phrenological theory? - ✔✔experimental ablations from the brains of
animals
✔✔When you press gently on the side of your eyeball and experience the visual
sensation of colored light, you illustrate - ✔✔the law of specific nerve energies.
✔✔Who of the following was NOT a founder of the movement known as Gestalt
psychology? - ✔✔Ernst Weber
✔✔Which of the following was NOT true about Milner's patient H.M.? - ✔✔His
declarative memory remained relatively intact.
✔✔The smallest intensity of a stimulus that can be reliably detected, used by Fechner
as the "zero point" in his scale of subjective intensities, is called the - ✔✔absolute
threshold.
✔✔Wilder Penfield showed that the nature of an epileptic patient's aura is a function of
the - ✔✔location of the diseased focus at which the seizure begins.
✔✔As indicated by studies in Wundt's laboratory, what was the maximum number of
individual units that could be apperceived at once? - ✔✔4 to 6
✔✔Wundt's first book, published in 1862, was on the topic of - ✔✔sense perception
✔✔_______ was an accomplished American mathematician and vision researcher who
challenged Titchener's policies on his invitation-only group of Experimentalists. -
✔✔Christine Ladd-Franklin
✔✔According to Wundt, voluntaristic psychology was - ✔✔an approach to psychology
that described events working at the periphery of conscious experience, events such as
apperception, creative synthesis, psychic causality, and will.
✔✔Titchener insisted that introspectors should avoid imposing "meaning" or
"interpretation" on their subjects, thereby eliminating what he called - ✔✔the stimulus
error.
✔✔Ebbinghaus's finding that memory for a learned task drops off most steeply
immediately after the learning and then declines more slowly exemplifies the _______ -
✔✔forgetting curve
, ✔✔in recent years, Wundt's theories have been newly appreciated for their relevance to
which current psychological specialty? - ✔✔psycholinguistics
✔✔Who is often regarded as the "father" of modern academic and experimental
psychology? - ✔✔Wilhelm Wundt
✔✔Wundt's former student Oswald Külpe went on to establish his own laboratory which
conducted introspective experiments on __________, which Wundt objected to because
__________. - ✔✔imageless thought; the studies entailed introspection of mental tasks
that Wundt believed were too complex for accurate introspective analysis
✔✔Wundt did research with Robert Bunsen involving - ✔✔the effects of a salt-restricted
diet
✔✔What did Catherine Cox's biographical study of historical geniuses suggest? - ✔✔If
tests had been available, virtually all of them would have achieved high IQs in
childhood.
✔✔One of the purposes of Darwin's book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and
Animals, was to show that - ✔✔many human reactions with no obvious survival or
utilitarian value today did have an adaptive purpose in the evolutionary past.
✔✔Alfred Russel Wallace is known for which of the following? - ✔✔independently
developing the theory of evolution by natural selection and having a paper on it read
jointly with one by Darwin in 1858
✔✔The major purpose for which Galton devised the idea of intelligence tests was to -
✔✔select the most able young people for eugenic breeding.
✔✔In 1905, who developed the first test of intelligence with substantial validity? -
✔✔Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon
✔✔As a result of organizing his data into __________, Galton noticed a pattern he
termed regression toward the mean. - ✔✔scatter plots
✔✔Charles Spearman theorized that all intellectual tasks must entail two kinds of
factors, a single common factor which he called __________ and a second kind that
focused on - ✔✔general intelligence; specific abilities
✔✔Who is credited with translating the Binet-Simon scale into English? - ✔✔Goddard
