PSY 4570: Cognitive Psychology Quiz 1

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A technique in which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli is known as

analytic introspection.

Match the scientist with the relevant information

Donald Broadbent - Flow diagram to represent what is happening in the mind Edward C Tolman - Cognitive maps John Watson - Psychology should focus on the study of observable behavior. Wilhelm Wundt - The first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany B. F. Skinner - Verbal Behavior

Watson became dissatisfied with the method of analytic introspection in which context?

Results were interpreted in terms of invisible inner mental processes

Match the scientist with the relevant information

Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Wilhelm Wundt - The first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany B. F. Skinner - Children's language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement Donald Broadbent - A flow diagram depicting the mind as processing information in a sequence of stages Colin Cherry - Selective attention

As a result of gaps in the behaviorist paradigm, the new cognitive paradigm began to emerge in which decade?

1950s

Verbal Behavior was written by

B. F. Skinner.

Match the terms with related concepts.

Classical conditioning - The pairing of a stimulus and a response Reaction time - The time between the presentation of a stimulus and a person's response to it. Cognitive psychology - The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind Structuralism - Analytic introspection Cognition - Attention, perception, memory, and decision making are all different types of mental processes in which the mind engages.

Which of the following terms is correct in context with "conception within the rat's mind of the maze's layout"?

Cognitive mapping

Which of the following is a criticism of analytic introspection?

It produces variable results from person to person.

Which of the following is NOT true of positron emission tomography (PET)?

It replaced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) because it was less expensive.

The use of the term artificial intelligence was coined by

John McCarthy.

Match the terms with related concepts.

PET (positron emission tomography) - Cognitive images created by injecting radioactive tracers into the bloodstream. Behaviorists - All behavior can be explained by stimuli and responses. Reaction time - The time between the presentation of a stimulus and a person's response to it. Information processing (IP) - Involves the use of computers as a metaphor to understand human cognition. Neuropsychology - Study of people with brain damage

Match the terms with related concepts.

Reaction time - The time between the presentation of a stimulus and a person's response to it. Cognition - Attention, perception, memory, and decision making are all different types of mental processes in which the mind engages. Cognitive psychology - The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind Neuropsychology - Study of people with brain damage Structuralism - Analytic introspection

Which book was written by Thomas Kuhn?

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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.

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

there are limits to the human ability to process information.


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