Titchener's Introspection and Stimulus Errors

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What did Titchener reject in favor of traditional associationism?

  • Wundt's dimensions of feelings
  • Context theory of meaning
  • Neurological correlates of mental events
  • Apperception and creative synthesis (correct)

According to Titchener, what is attention primarily associated with?

  • Muscle contractions
  • Clearness of sensation (correct)
  • Core of vivid sensations
  • Combination of sensations

What was a core aspect of Titchener's Context Theory of meaning?

  • Vivid sensations
  • Images of previous sensations (correct)
  • Muscle contractions
  • Combination of sensations

How did Titchener view the mind-body relationship?

<p>Psychophysical parallelist (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was a significant reason for the decline of Structuralism in psychology according to the text?

<p>Inconsistent methods of introspection (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Titchener believe provides psychological processes with continuity?

<p>Physiological processes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the primary focus of Titchener's use of introspection?

<p>To identify the basic, raw experiences from which complex cognitive experiences are formed (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was considered a 'stimulus error' in Titchener's introspective method?

<p>Naming or identifying the object being observed (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following was not considered an attribute of sensations and images in Titchener's theory?

<p>Meaning (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Titchener, which sense had the highest number of identifiable sensations?

<p>Vision (approximately 30,000 sensations) (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Titchener eventually shift his focus to, according to the text?

<p>The attributes of the mental elements (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which theory of Wundt's did Titchener disagree with?

<p>The tridimensional theory of feeling (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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