Quiz 1 - Chapter 1

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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

The first formal laboratory of psychology was founded by _______ where the approach of _________ was created.

Wundt; structuralism

Which of the following is a criticism of analytic introspection?

It produces variable results from person to person.

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.

Using behavior to infer mental processes is the basic principle of

cognitive psychology.

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

Who introduced the flow diagram to represent what is happening in the mind?

Donald Broadbent

The first experiments in cognitive psychology were based on the idea that mental responses can be

inferred from the participant's behavior.

Ebbinghaus's "memory" experiments were important because they

plotted functions that described the operation of the mind.

Behaviorists believe that the presentation of_______ increases the frequency of behavior.

positive reinforcers

In Donders' experiment on decision-making, when participants were asked to press a button upon presentation of a light, they were engaged in a _______ task, while when they were asked to press one button if the light on the left was illuminated and another button for the right, they were engaged in a _______ task.

simple reaction time; choice reaction time


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