Chapter 1 Quiz
who proposed that children language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement
BF Skinner
the first experiments in cognitive psychology were based on the idea that mental responses
can be inferred from the participants behavior
in donders experiment on decision making, when participants were asked press either a left button or a right button upon presentation of a light on the left or right 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
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
computers
In Tolman's experiment rats developed a cognitive map of the maze
even without reinforcement
which of the following would be an example of operant conditioning
going into work everyday in order to get a paycheck at the end of the week
Regarding children language development, Noam Chomsky noted that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. From this, he concluded that language development is driven largely by
inborn biological programming
Broadbent's notion that the mind could be represented as operating in a sequence of stages, often represented by boxes is an example of the _____ approach to studying cognition
information processing
which of the following methods often associated with structuralism was used in the psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt
introspection
the main point of the donders experiments was to
measure the amount of time it takes to make a decision
John Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of
observable behavior
Brain imaging techniques like fMRI, PET, MEG and NIRS are all examples of
physiological techniques used to study the mind
who developed the concept of the cognitive map
tolman