Phrenology was a method of determining mental abilities and traits by a. examining…

Phrenology was a method of determining mental abilities and traits by
a. examining facial characteristics, such as the shape of the nose.
b. examining body types.
c. having subjects fill out questionnaires.
d. reading the bumps on one’s skull.
For Helmholz, the law of conservation of energy asserts that, within a closed system,
a. organisms strive to store, or conserve, a certain amount of energy as a “backup-”
b. energy eannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
c. energy can be created, destroyed, or transformed.
d. humans are unique in their abilities to promote conservation of energy.
Organology was originally used as a term that involved
a. a specific neurosurgical procedure involving the removal of certain sections of organs.
b. Gall’s view that the brain is the organ of the mind.
c. George Combe’s variation of the physiognomic system.
d. Johann Spurzheim’s approach to “reading the signs of the body.”
Descartes believed that the interactions between the body and the mind occurred in
a. the pineal gland.
b. the amygdala.
c. the prefrontal cortex.
d. the heart.
The term noumenal world refers to
Rene Descartes’s expression of the interaction between the mind and the body.
b. the theory that when the world encounters the human mind it is transformed.
c. the concept that external objects in their pure state are unknowable.
d. the idea that all knowledge is gained through experience.
Which philosopher believed that humans never directly experience the pure reality of things?
a. René Descartes
b. Immanuel Kant
c. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d. Johann Friedrich Herbart
a. a science where the duality between the mind and the body is examined empirically.
Psychophysics can be defined in terms of
b. quantifying the relationship between physical stimuli and psychological phenomena.
d. the application of psychological knowledge to the physical world.
Ernst Heinrich Weber’s formulation of the just-noticeable difference (jnd) refers to
a. the absolute difference between the original stimulus and the comparison stimulus.
c. the individual differences among experience and any other sensation that is jast aoticeable.
d. the smallest increase in the pheir ability to discriminate among various stiminated.