Chapter 1 PSYC2501

Which of the following events is most closely associated with the decline of behaviorism as an approach to psychology?

Skinner's publication of the book, "Verbal Behavior"

Who developed the concept of the cognitive map

Tolman

The founder of the first laboratory of scientific psychology was

Willhelm Wundt

Which of the following is a criticism of analytic introspection?

it creates variable result from person to person

Colin Cherry's experiment in which participants listen to two messages simultaneously, one in each ear, found that

1. people take in very little information about the ignored message. 2. people can focus on one message and ignore the other one. 3. people can focus on the message they were repeating.

What year is usually cited as the "birthday" of cognitive science (pick the closest year)?

1956

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

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

A mental conception of the layout of a physical space is known as a(n)

Cognitive map

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

classical conditioning

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

cognitive task and the mental response

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

The modal model of memory includes all of these components except:

memory consolidation

Shepard & Metzler's experiment studied....

mental rotation

Ebbinghaus' "memory" experiments were important because they

plotted functions that described the operation of the mind

Newell and Simon were among the first to use computers in cognitive psychology. Their computer program _______

solved logic problems