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