Exam 1: An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

An important feature of cognitive science is that it emphasizes

Which of the following students provides the best understanding of the PET scan technique?

According to the first chapter in your textbook,research in cognitive neuroscience

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

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

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

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?

During the late 1960s,psychologists began to favor the cognitive approach,because they felt that the behaviorist approach

Suppose that several cognitive scientists are trying to program a computer so that it solves a particular problem in the same way a human does,taking into account that a human may make a few false starts before successfully solving the problem.This approach is called

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

According to Chapter 1 in your textbook,the computer-simulation method

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

Suppose that you meet a professor who is trying to determine what portions of the brain are involved in trying to recall a word that is on the tip of your tongue.This person is likely to use the approach of

One of the characteristics of the human brain that is especially important in the connectionist approach is that the brain

Chris just telephoned Roberta and listed eight items that they need for the afternoon picnic.Roberta didn't have a pencil,so she couldn't write them down.However,she remembers the last three items very well because of

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

Suppose that you hear about a research project in linguistics that is exploring the topic called discourse.Which of the following would be the most likely topic for this research?

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

When researchers use the introspection technique,

Suppose that you want to see whether the human brain responds differently when a person reads a pleasant word,rather than an unpleasant word.Which of the following neuroscience techniques would provide the most useful information about processing these two kinds of words?