Exam 6: A Transition to Modern Cognitivism: Hebb, Tolman, and the Gestaltists

When a group of people is remembered as average (not having unusual or eccentric behavior and personalities), which of the following Gestalt organizational tendencies is being utilized?

Cell assemblies and long term memory are examples of

Which of the following takes place during the refractory period?

A permanent facilitation of transmission of electrical impulses between two cells brought about by repeated transmission of impulses between these cells is Hebb's description of

Cognitive maps relate

The ongoing understanding of the human nervous system has

According to Gestalt, insight involves

According to the principle of prägnanz, in evaluating a perception, one should

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" refers to

Gestalt laws of perception describe

To achieve the fullest understanding of something, a Gestalt approach advocates identification of individual components comprising the whole, in some way prioritizing them in order of importance, and then studying each one in turn building a cumulative knowledge of the whole. This approach is known as

To understand Hebb's system, one must have an understanding of

Which of the following describes Tolman's system?

Which of the following is not a constructivist method of teaching?

A reductionist theory

"What you see is what you get" illustrates

Which of the following describes the early behaviorist view of higher mental processes?

The movement of the electrical impulse across the gap between neurons is known as

What is a cognitivistic metaphor?

Receptors and effectors in Hebb's system are