Q 01/05

In which German city did Wilhelm Wundt open the world's first psychology laboratory in 1879?

A) Dresden

B) Hamburg

C) Leipzig

D) Munich

Answer · why

C) Leipzig

Leipzig gave Wundt a room in 1876 just to store instruments he had brought from Switzerland; by 1879 it was the first laboratory devoted purely to psy...

Q 02/05

Hugo Eckener earned a psychology doctorate under Wilhelm Wundt, then won world fame commanding what kind of craft?

A) Airships

B) Submarines

C) Ocean liners

D) Racing yachts

Answer · why

A) Airships

Airships made Eckener a household name: he commanded the Graf Zeppelin on the first airship flight around the world, decades after finishing his thesi...

Q 03/05

Wilhelm Wundt's first scientific paper, published in 1853 while he studied medicine, measured the salt content of what?

A) Sweat

B) Blood

C) Tears

D) Urine

Answer · why

D) Urine

Urine was the subject: Wundt's debut measured its sodium chloride content and appeared in only his third year as a medical student.

Q 04/05

Vundtia, which carries the number 635 and honours Wilhelm Wundt, is what kind of object?

A) A lunar crater

B) An asteroid

C) A beetle genus

D) A rare mineral

Answer · why

B) An asteroid

An asteroid: 635 Vundtia orbits the Sun, and its opening V matches how Germans pronounce the first letter of Wundt.

Q 05/05

Which method did Wilhelm Wundt pair with strict laboratory controls to study conscious experience at first hand?

A) Hypnosis

B) Introspection

C) Dream analysis

D) Free association

Answer · why

B) Introspection

Introspection, for Wundt, had firm rules: observers had to know when the event was coming, and each observation had to be repeatable under the same co...