cognitive chapter 1
what level of analysis would explain the flanker task? a. algorithmic b. implementational c. computational
a.
which method of conditioning is when there is a learned association between a stimuli and the environment? a. classical b. operant
a.
a teacher rewards students after they get a good grade on an exam by giving them candy. this is an example of? a. operant conditioning b. classical conditioning
a. behavior is met with reward
if the last word in a memory task was "cat" and most people remembered it. this is because of ------- effect. a. recency b. primacy
a. recency
who invented the information theory and what did it suggest? a. shannon b. chomsky c. wundt
a. shannon suggested that the mind computes and stores info like digititally
early behaviorists believed... a. psychology needed to be less subjective b. psychology needed to be only objective c. psychology needed to be more subjective
b.
what tool was used to measure the mental events behind the flanker task? a. accuracy b. RT
b.
The first president of the US was george washington. this is an example of a? a. episodic memory b. semantic memory
b. semantic general knowledge
mental representations are part of which level of analysis? a. algorithmic b. implementational c. computational
b. understand what happens in the brain to enable cognition
what technique was first used in early psych labs? a. conditioning b. neuroscience c. introspection
c.
which is not a limit of behaviorism? a. rats developed cognitive maps of mazes b. ww2 pilots have problems with memory and attention c. used animal models that represented humans d. children produced novel sentences they had never heard before
c.
chomsky believed.... a. children could create novel sentences they had never heard before b. behaviorism could not explain mental events c. behaviorism was the right way to study psychology d. a and b
d.
who was the first person to make a psych lab? a. tolman b. helmholtz c. chomsky d. wundt
d. william wundt