Unit 1 Cognitive Psychology

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

1950s

Donald Broadbent

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

Specificity coding

An object could be represented by the firing of a specialized neuron that responds only to that object

Verbal Behavior was written by

B. F. Skinner.

Why can we consider Tolman one of the early cognitive psychologists?

Because he used behavior to infer mental process

When the axon is at rest, the inside of the neuron has a charge that is 70 millivolts more negative than the outside. This difference will continue as long as

the neuron is at rest.

cognitive neuroscience

the study of phsyiolocgical basis of cognition

B. F. Skinner

Children's language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement

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

Donald Broadbent

Ramon is looking at photos of athletes in a sports magazine. He is focusing on their body parts, particularly their chest and legs. Which part of Ramon's brain is activated by this viewing?

Extrastriate body area (EBA)

Stimulus intensity

Firing rate of the action potentials codes the strength of a stimulus

Which of the following does not characterize the information processing approach to the study of cognition

IP emphasizes stimulus response relationships in cognitive processes

The use of the term artificial intelligence was coined by

John McCarthy.

Sparse coding

Neural coding based on the pattern of activity in small groups of neurons

Colin Cherry

Selective attention

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

Action potentials occur in the

axon.

Which parts of neurons are also known as a "nerve fiber"?

axons

Ebbinghaus "memory" experiments were important because

they plotted functions that described the operation of the mind

neurons

cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform information-processing tasks

Early studies of brain tissue that used staining techniques and microscopes from the 19th century described the "nerve net." These early understandings were in error in the sense that the nerve net was believed to be

continuous.

Brain imaging has made it possible to

determine which areas of the brain are involved in different cognitive processes.

According to Ebbinghaus's research on memory, savings is a function of

elapsed time

Neurons that respond to specific qualities of objects, such as orientation, movement, and length, are called

feature detectors.

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

inferred from the participant's behavior.

The investigation of how behavior is strengthened by presentation of positive reinforces or withdrawal of negative is best known as

operant conditioning

Colin Cherry experiment in which participants listen to 2 messages simultaneously, one in each ear, found all but which one:

people who are deaf are processing auditory info on a non conscious level

Reaction time refers to the time between the __ of a stimulus and a persons response to it

presentation

The fusiform face area (FFA) in the brain is often damaged in patients with

prosopagnosia.

If the intensity of a stimulus that is presented to a touch receptor is increased, this tends to increase the __________ in the receptor's axon.

rate of nerve firing