Intro to Cognitive Psychology- Chpt 1

Which of the following does NOT characterize the information processing (IP) approach to the study of cognition?

IP supports the principle of behaviorism that behavior is a stimulus-response relationship.

The procedure in which trained participants describe their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli presented under controlled conditions is known as

analytic introspection

The field that studies how to make machines behave in ways that are intelligent if a human were so behaving is known as

artificial intelligence

Which of the following analogies would provide the best description for how research progresses in cognitive psychology?

A traiil from which one thing leads to another.

Attention, perception, memory, and decision making are all different types of mental processes in which the mind engages. These are known as different types of

Cognition

By comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment as indicating how long it took to

Make a decision about the stimulus

According to the behaviorists, only the study of ________ should be the emphasis of the science of psychology.

Observable Behavior

Which of the following events is most closely associated with a resurgence in interest in the mind within the study of psychology?

Skinner's publication of the book, Verbal Behavior

Which of the following are the two primary categories of models in cognitive psychology?​

Structural models and process models

Using behavior to infer mental processes is the basic principle of

cognitive psychology

Ebbinghaus's "memory" experiments were important because they

plotted functions that described the operation of the mind.

An important contribution to the field of psychology resulting from Wilhelm Wundt founding his laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879 was

producing PhDs who later established psychology departments at other schools, including some in the United States.