QUESTIONS

From Psychology: An Elementary Text-book by Hermann Ebbinghaus.

1. How old is the science of psychology?

2. What do you know about its early growth?

3. What are the difficulties besetting psychology?

4. What is the origin of popular psychology?

5. Why is psychology so much hampered by prejudice?

6. State the two ways in which psychology has been influenced by natural science.

7. How was psychology influenced by medieval theology?

8. Who were the opponents of theological psychology?

9. What does freedom of action mean?

10. What kind of ignorance is the cause of the belief in absolute freedom?

11. How did the associational psychology originate?

12. What is meant by the faculty psychology?

13. What does psychology owe to Herbart?

14. What is voluntarism?

15. Why are mechanical explanations of mental life inadequate?

16. From which science can psychology obtain the most fruitful analogies?

17. Which science gave in the earlier part of the nineteenth century the strongest direct impulse to psychology?

18. What is psychophysics and who is its author?

19. What is meant by the personal equation?

20. What experimental investigations were suggested by the personal equation?

21. How did the study of the physiology of the brain influence psychology?

22. Is psychology a special science?

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