quiz 1 Cognitive psychology
Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany?
Wilhelm Wundt
Donald Broadbent was the first person to develop which of the following?
a flow diagram depicting the mind as processing information in a sequence of stages
What does the field of neuropsychology study?
behavior of people with brain damage
In Donders's experiment on decision making, when participants were asked to press one button if the light on the left was illuminated and another button if the light on the right was illuminated, they were engaged in a
choice reaction time task
The "Little Albert" experiment involving the rat and the loud noise is an example of which of the following types of experiments?
classical conditioning
Which of the following terms is correct in context with "Pairing one stimulus with another"?
classical conditioning
Which of the following terms is correct in context with "conception within the rat's mind of the maze's layout"?
cognitive mapping
The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called
cognitive psychology
What is the study of mental processes that includes determining the characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates?
cognitive psychology
According to Ebbinghaus's research on memory, savings is a function of
elapsed time
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?
functioning and survival
Which of the following is a criticism of analytic introspection?
it produces variable results from person to person
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.
less than one second
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
As a result of gaps in the behaviorist paradigm, the new cognitive paradigm began to emerge in which decade?
1950's
Who proposed that children's language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement?
B.F skinner
Which of the following psychologists is known for research on operant conditioning?
B.F. skinner
Who introduced the flow diagram to represent what is happening in the mind?
Donald Broadbent
Colin Cherry's experiment in which participants listen to two messages simultaneously, one in each ear, found all but which of the following?
people who are deaf process auditory information on a non conscious level
which memory is used for physcial actions
procedural memory
Watson became dissatisfied with the method of analytic introspection in which context
results were interpreted in terms of invisible inner mental processes
Endel Tulving, one of the most prominent early memory researchers, proposed that long-term memory is subdivided into all of the following components EXCEPT
short term memory
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"?
the mind as problem solver
Which book was written by Thomas Kuhn?
the structure of scientific revolution
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
The "cognitive revolution"
was a gradual process that occurred over a few decades
Which of the following does NOT characterize the information processing (IP) approach to the study of cognition?
IP emphasizes stimulus-response relationships in cognitive processes
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
The use of the term "artificial intelligence" was coined by
John McCarthy
How is the term mind used in this statement: "When he talks about his encounter with aliens, it sounds like he is out of his mind"?
The mind as a healthy mind being associated with normal functioning, a nonfunctioning mind with abnormal functioning.
