Exam 1: The Science of the Mind

Despite the fact that we cannot see (with the naked eye) mental activity, cognitive psychologists are able to scientifically study these processes. Explain why this is possible by describing Kantian logic. Next, provide at least three measureable variables and explain why they could be reliably used as proxies for mental behavior.

Bert has sustained damage to a part of his left temporal lobe, which is important for language production. Which of the following problems would we expect to see if Bert were given a WM test?

The process of taking observable information and inferring a cause is known as

Which of the following kinds of evidence is LEAST likely to be used in cognitive psychology?

Which of the following statements provides the most serious obstacle to the use of introspection as a source of scientific evidence?

Behaviorists study organisms'

Cognitive psychology often relies on the transcendental method, in which

Within the working-memory system, mental "assistants" are available to allow the storage of information soon to be needed but not currently in use. A crucial "scratch pad" is the

Theorists have proposed that working memory is best understood as a system involving multiple components. The activities of this system are controlled by a resource called the

Cognitive psychology relies on evidence from multiple domains (behavioral, neuroscience, trauma, etc.) because

In an experimental procedure, participants hear a sequence of letters and then, a moment later, are required to repeat back the sequence. The longest sequence for which participants can easily do this is likely to contain approximately ________ letters.

Participants in an experiment are shown a series of digits and then asked to repeat them back a moment later. While being shown the sequence, the participants are required to say, "tah, tah, tah," out loud, over and over again. The evidence indicates that the recitation of "tah, tah, tah" will

Span tests measure

Behaviorists argued that ________ were most important in analyzing behavior.

The term "introspection" refers to the

Describe how cognitive psychologists arrive at knowledge by answering the following questions about working memory (WM). a. Describe the multicomponent model of WM. b. What is anarthria? What are the implications of this disorder for the multicomponent model of WM? c. Describe one other source of knowledge, besides special populations, that can be used to evaluate the multicomponent model of WM.

Finish the analogy: boss is to worker as ________ is to phonological buffer.

Imagine you are trying to memorize a new phone number. How would Baddeley and Hitch explain the process by which this would occur?

Evidence from neuroimaging studies suggests that subvocalization is most closely related to

Cognitive psychologists try to make inferences about causes, based on the observed effects. In this way, cognitive psychologists are most like