Exam 1: An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Behaviorists and cognitive psychologists are most likely to agree on which of the following points?

William James made his most important contributions to cognitive psychology in his work on

An operational definition is most likely to

A psychologist who favors the Gestalt approach would be most likely to criticize the fact that behaviorists

An important characteristic of the connectionist approach to cognition is that

Which of the following is the best example of a schema?

Suppose that you attend a lecture on the bottom-up processes involved in speech perception. The lecturer is likely to emphasize

Which of the following students provides the most accurate summary of the behaviorists' contributions to cognitive psychology?

Cognitive science is

If a study has high ecological validity, then the most likely conclusion is that

The primary contribution of Hermann Ebbinghaus to current cognitive psychology was

Which of the following people was known for seeing human memory as an active, constructive process in which we interpret and transform the information that we encounter?

With practice and reinforcement, a rat learns to navigate a maze. A behaviorist would operationalize the rat's "learning" as

Your textbook discusses the early history of cognitive psychology. According to this discussion,

In contrast to Hermann Ebbinghaus, William James was more likely to focus on

According to your textbook, the artificial intelligence (AI) approach

According to the discussion in Chapter 1, behaviorism places the most emphasis on

Based on the information in Chapter 1, how would you describe the approach of William James?

Which of the following students provides the most accurate interpretation of one of the themes of the textbook?

During the 1950s, many psychologists were becoming discouraged with behaviorism, and cognitive psychology began to emerge. A major reason they were disappointed with behaviorism is that