Helmholtz Was a ________ Whose Work Included the Insight That

question 37

Multiple Choice

Helmholtz was a ________ whose work included the insight that

• A)structuralist;perception involves unconscious inferences about incoming stimuli.
• B)structuralist;consciousness is complex,but composed of simple elements that can be analyzed through introspection.
• C)psychophysicist;perception involves unconscious inferences about incoming stimuli.
• D)psychophysicist;consciousness is complex,but composed of simple elements that can be analyzed through introspection.

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Definitions:

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis.

MMPI

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a comprehensive standardized test used to assess and diagnose mental health disorders and personality structure.

Raven's Progressive Matrices

A nonverbal group test typically used to measure abstract reasoning and considered a good estimation of fluid intelligence.

Personality

The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character, often studied in psychology to understand differences in behavior and mental processes.