Cognitive Psychology Quiz 1

1992

Neuroimage, a journal devoted solely to reporting neuroimaging research, was founded in which year?

simple reaction time task

In Donders's experiment on decision making, when participants were asked to press a button upon presentation of a light, they were engaged in a

B. F. Skinner

Verbal Behavior was written by

Cognitive psychology

What is the study of mental processes that includes determining the characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates?

B. F. Skinner

Which of the following psychologists is known for research on operant conditioning?

Donald Broadbent

Who introduced the flow diagram to represent what is happening in the mind?

The mind as problem solver

How is the term mind used in this statement: "If you put your mind to it, I'm sure you can solve that math problem"?

less than one second

In Donders's research on human decision making, he found that it took ____________ to decide which of two buttons to push in response to a stimulus.

A flow diagram depicting the mind as processing information in a sequence of stages

Donald Broadbent was the first person to develop which of the following?

Short-term memory

Endel Tulving, one of the most prominent early memory researchers, proposed that long-term memory is subdivided into all of the following components EXCEPT

there are limits to the human ability to process information

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Symposium on Information Theory, George Miller presented a paper suggesting that

Functioning and survival

Consider the following definition of the mind: The mind is a system that creates representations of the world so that we can act within it to achieve our goals. Which element of the mind does this definition emphasize?

measure the amount of time it takes to make a decision

The main point of the Donders's reaction time experiments was to

cognitive task and the mental response

The relationship between the ____________ is NOT measured directly by cognitive psychologists.

presentation

Reaction time refers to the time between the _______ of a stimulus and a person's response to it

Hierarchical processing

Taking clay and sand to create bricks, which are then used to build modular wall panels, which are then assembled to construct tall buildings, is similar to which of the following neural concepts?

Classical conditioning

The "Little Albert" experiment involving the rat and the loud noise is an example of which of the following types of experiments?

The density of cells in a newborn brain is small compared with the density in an adult brain.

Why is it easier to study brain tissue from newborn animals than brain tissue from adults?

structuralism

Wundt's approach, which dominated psychology in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was known as

computers

Your text describes the occurrence of a "cognitive revolution" during which dramatic changes took place in the way psychology was studied. This so-called revolution occurred parallel to (and, in part, because of) the introduction of