Cognitive Psychology Chapter 1 Quiz

who proposed that children's language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement?

B. F. Skinner

who developed the concept of the cognitive map?

Tolman

the first experiments in cognitive psychology were based on the idea that mental responses...

can be inferred from the participant's behavior

in Donders' experiment on decision making, when participants were asked to press either a left button or right button upon presentation of a light on the left or right, they were engaged in a...

choice reaction time task

the "Little Albert" experiment involving the rat and the loud noise is an example of...

classical conditioning

using behavior to infer mental processes is the basic principle of.....

cognitive psychology

what is an example of operant conditioning in the workplace?

going into work every day in order to get a paycheck at the end of the week

Noam Chomsky's observations led him to conclude that language development is driven largely by...

inborn programming

Broadbent's notion of the mind, called the _____________ , said that the mind could be represented as operating in a sequence of stages.

information processing theory

which method, often associated with structuralism, was used in the psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt?

introspection

what was a criticism of the method of introspection?

it produces variable results from person to person

the main point of the Donders reaction time experiment was to...

measure the amount of time it takes to make a decision

John Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of...

observable behavior

in Tolman's experiment rats developed a cognitive map of the maze without any ______________ .

reinforcement

the "cognitive revolution" in the study of psychology occurred in parallel with (and as a result of) the introduction of...

the first digital computers