Exam 1: An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Which of the following women was an early researcher in memory who reported the recency effect and also became the first female president of the American Psychological Association?

According to Chapter 1's introduction to the chapters in your textbook, perceptual processes

A cognitive psychologist who analyzes a cognitive task in terms of a series of stages-like the way a computer operates-is using which of the following approaches?

Information processing models assume that

The philosopher ____ can be called the first cognitive psychologist, because he examined topics such as memory and perception and emphasized the importance of empirical evidence.

An important feature of cognitive science is that it emphasizes

When researchers use the introspection technique,

Based on the discussion of artificial intelligence in Chapter 1,

Cognitive psychologists believe that behaviorists cannot explain human language because

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

A researcher wants to study how people's attention shifts when they see a visual stimulus in an unexpected portion of a screen that they are viewing; this attention shift occurs in just a fraction of a second. Which of the following techniques is this researcher most likely to use?

Some cognitive neuroscientists study brain lesions to learn more about brain functions. However, a major problem with this technique is that

The information-processing approach

One component of your general knowledge focuses on semantic memory. Which of the following would be an example of semantic memory?

Why are cognitive psychologists less interested in the information-processing approach than they were in earlier years?

Which term or phrase is closest in meaning to the term "cognition"?

An important characteristic of the connectionist approach is that

Which of the following movements emphasized the human tendency to actively organize what we see?

A research team is studying which parts of the brain are active when a participant looks at a photograph of a person, and tries to judge how intelligent that person is. This kind of study is an example of

Prior to 1995, cognitive psychologists tended to focus strongly on understanding