Physiological Psychology - Ch. 1

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Wundt's procedure in which trained participants describe their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli presented under controlled conditions is known as

analytic introspection.

The relationship between the ____________ is NOT measured directly by cognitive psychologists.

cognitive task and the mental response

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

1950s

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

Which of the following methods, often associated with structuralism, was used in the psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt?

Analytic introspection

Verbal Behavior was written by

B. F. Skinner.

Which of the following psychologists is known for research on operant conditioning?

B.F. Skinner

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

Because he used behavior to infer mental processes

What is the study of mental processes that includes determining the characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates?

Cognitive psychology

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

Donald Broadbent

Wundt's approach, which dominated psychology in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was known as

structuralism.

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.

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

Who developed the concept of the cognitive map?

Tolman

Which of the following is a criticism of analytic introspection?

It produces variable results from person to person.

Which of the following is NOT true of positron emission tomography (PET)?

It replaced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) because it was less expensive.

The use of the term artificial intelligence was coined by

John McCarthy.

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 nonconscious level.

Watson became dissatisfied with the method of analytic introspection in which context?

Results were interpreted in terms of invisible inner mental processes


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