Deck 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction

Question 1

Many of the topics of Wundt's research would fall under what we now label as ________ psychology.

A)clinical
B)counseling
C)industrial/organizational
D)cognitive

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Memory does NOT involve __________.

A)a mental storage system
B)acquiring information
C)complex decision making
D)mental processes

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Titchener is most strongly associated with __________.

A)structuralism
B)functionalism
C)the cognitive revolution
D)Gestalt psychology

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Who said,"I think,therefore I am"?

A)Rene Descartes
B)William James
C)Aristotle
D)Immanuel Kant

Question 5

If something is generalizable to real-world situations,it __________.

A)is pragmatic
B)acquires an air of confidence
C)has ecological validity
D)no longer is basic science

Question 6

People first began wondering about how the mind worked __________.

A)after the cognitive revolution
B)after Aristotle
C)after Descartes
D)before any of these people or events

Question 7

If we hear a complaint that experimental psychology research lacks ecological validity,the person is complaining that __________.

A)the research is not representative of real-world situations
B)the research lacks sufficient precision
C)the research lacks an appropriate comparison group
D)we are attempting to understand complex phenomena by breaking them down into their components

Question 8

The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving,remembering,thinking,and understanding is __________.

A)operations
B)mentalism
C)cognition
D)computational neuroscience

Question 9

When did the cognitive revolution occur?

A)early 1970s
B)late 1950s
C)late 1850s
D)mid-1940s

Question 10

Who is credited with being the first experimental psychologist?

A) Wilhelm Wundt
B)William James
C)Edward Titchner
D)John Watson

Question 11

Radical empiricists believe that the mind starts out as a __________.

A)cogito blanco
B)tabula rasa
C)scientia est potestas
D)semper fideles

Question 12

Empirical observations are those that __________.

A)rely on observation,experimentation,or measurement
B)characterize an entire set of research data
C)are conducted in a field setting outside the laboratory
D)compare people of different ages at a given moment in time

Question 13

The philosophy that observation is to be the basis for much of science is __________.

A)empiricism
B)rationalism
C)structuralism
D)functionalism

Question 14

The student of mental activity and thinking,broadly conceived,is called __________.

A)cognitive science
B)mind science
C)cognitive studies
D)mind studies

Question 15

Cognition does NOT involve __________.

A)reflexes
B)mental activities
C)perceiving
D)understanding

Question 16

Ecological validity means __________.

A)the amount of experimental control the experimenter has over the important manipulations
B)acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval
C)attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components
D)representative of the real world

Question 17

The mental process of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval is __________.

A)cognition
B)memory
C)planning
D)forecasting

Question 18

A person trying to understand complex events by breaking them down into their components is using __________.

A)fragmentation
B)reductionism
C)a parsing approach
D)distillation

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT true?

A)Wundt established the first psychological laboratory.
B)Wundt's student Titchner advocated the approach known as structuralism.
C)Wundt believed strongly that the proper topic for psychology was "conscious processes and immediate experience."
D)Wundt advocated the approach known as functionalism.

Question 20

Reductionism is __________.

A)the method in which observers are carefully trained to report on inner sensations and experiences
B)the building blocks underlying the structure of the brain
C)the branch of experimental psychology that deals with human participants as they learn verbal materials,e.g.,items or stimuli composed of letters and/or words
D)attempting to understand a complex event by breaking the event down into its components

Question 21

According to behaviorists and neobehaviorists,the ultimate purpose of research on learning was to understand __________.

A)the building blocks of conscious experience
B)the acquisition of behavior by conditioning
C)performance,rather than learning
D)memory,rather than cognition

Question 22

Which is NOT a characteristic of behaviorism?

A)scientific study of behavior
B)focus on observable,quantifiable behavior
C)antimentalist
D)the first major school of thought in experimental psychology

Question 23

William James's research output was __________.

A)high
B)low
C)skewed
D)artificial

Question 24

William James believed __________.

A)that nothing worthwhile would come of studying mental processes
B)that mental illness,educational applications,and social psychology were "impure" because they could not be studied with introspective methods
C)that the appropriate goal for psychology was the objective assessment of association formation
D)that the functions of consciousness,rather than its structure,were of interest

Question 25

Neobehaviorism differs from behaviorism in __________.

A)allowing the scientific study of observable behavior
B)allowing introspective methodologies
C)incorporating psychophysiological measures
D)allowing unobserved mediating variables

Question 26

What was a problem with traditional behaviorism as revealed to experimental psychologists doing work during World War II?

A) Most of the Army and Navy had to deal with people,not rats.
B)Much longer retention periods of knowledge were involved.
C)It did not address practical concerns,such as vigilance.
D)The principles of behaviorism were all shown to be incorrect.

Question 27

Which was NOT a reason for the rise to dominance of behaviorism?

A)seemingly endless debates within structuralism regarding "appropriate" interpretation
B)physics envy
C)success in modeling learning
D)The tabula rasa position provided a superior account for species-specific behaviors.

Question 28

Behaviorism had its strongest impact __________.

A)on the popular press
B)in clinical treatments
C)in America
D)with education

Question 29

How do some psychologists describe the transition from behaviorism to cognitivism?

A)a revolution
B)a regression
C)a simple relabeling
D)a tragedy

Question 30

Which is true of Ebbinghaus?

A)He was interested in memory.
B)He was interested in perception.
C)He was interested in reasoning.
D)He was interested in studying introspection.

Question 31

Most associated with the method of savings is __________.

A)Hermann von Ebbinghaus
B)William James
C)Wilhelm Wundt
D)B.F.Skinner

Question 32

Which of the following does NOT challenge a pure behaviorist perspective?

A)demonstrated effects of attention
B)the role of vigilance in a skilled performance task
C)language
D)incorporating Pavlov's work on classical conditioning

Question 33

The behaviorist manifesto is associated with __________.

A)Hull
B)Watson
C)Skinner
D)Tolman

Question 34

Edward Titchener believed __________.

A)that nothing worthwhile would come of studying mental processes
B)that mental illness,educational applications,and social psychology were "impure" because they could not be studied using introspection
C)that the appropriate goal for psychology was the objective assessment of association formation
D)that the functions of consciousness,rather than its structure,were of interest

Question 35

__________ believed that observable,quantifiable behavior is the proper topic of psychology,not the fuzzy and unscientific concepts of thoughts,mind,and consciousness.

A)Wundt
B)Watson
C)Ebbinghaus
D)James

Question 36

Which of the following was NOT a challenge to the behaviorist approach?

A)language
B)attention
C)vigilance
D)S-R learning

Question 37

One of the legacies of verbal learning was that __________.

A)it reinforced the dominant behaviorist ideals about mental activi
B)it provided a way to study mental processes in an objective manner
C)no one could find any theoretical basis for the work
D)an effective counterweight to research on verbal behavior was found

Question 38

An approach that asks the questions "What is it for?" and "How does it adapt?" is __________.

A)functionalism
B)structuralism
C)empiricism
D)reductionism

Question 39

Which of the following was an outgrowth of Ebbinghaus's work on memory?

A)B.F.Skinner's behaviorism
B)verbal learning theorists
C)researchers studying operant conditioning
D)Gestalt psychology

Question 40

Hermann Ebbinghaus was the first person to systematically study __________.

A)perception
B)attention
C)problem solving
D)memory

Question 41

Accounts positing independent nonoverlapping stages of processing are referred to as __________.

A)protocol models
B)stage models
C)parallel processing models
D)conceptually driven processing models

Question 42

The essence of Chomsky's review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior book was that __________.

A)Skinner failed to supply an adequate computer model of verbal learning
B)Skinner relied too heavily on animal models
C)Skinner failed to consider the role of attention
D)Skinner's work was a mere terminological revision,in which terms borrowed from the laboratory were used in the full vagueness of their ordinary usage

Question 43

The Atkinson & Shiffrin model provides a useful summary of overall cognitive function.Their model is normally referred to as __________.

A)the standard model
B)a connectionist model
C)a process model
D)a channel capacity model

Question 44

What type of information is useful in identifying instances in which a person has distorted memory?

A)intrusions rather than accuracy
B)strictly accuracy
C)skewed response times
D)formative interference

Question 45

The sentence "I do not have to attend to what the cat will eat tomorrow" includes ten occurrences of the letter T.The Radvansky and Ashcraft text argues that people's difficulties in finding all of the Ts reflects __________.

A)channel capacity
B)a failure to read the textbook
C)top-down processing
D)connectionist modeling

Question 46

A lexical decision task is __________.

A)a process model
B)a connectionist model
C)a word decision task
D)a priming task

Question 47

Which of the following is a central analogy of cognitive psychology?
E)the flowchart
F)the building blocks underlying the structure of the brain
G)the whole is greater than the sum of the parts: the importance of context.
H)the digital computer

Question 48

What is a way of making a theory more explicit about how cognition proceeds during a task?

A)Create a process model.
B)Deconstruct a simulation.
C)Formulate a mathematical inference machine.
D)Establish a protocol.

Question 49

How many milliseconds in a second?

A)1/100th
B)10
C)100
D)1000

Question 50

In response to a difficult question,a person is likely to respond more slowly than if an easy question had been asked.In terms of the overall response times,the difficult question would yield __________.

A)response times with lower numbers
B)response times with higher numbers
C)response times would not differ
D)not enough information has been provided

Question 51

The act of taking in information and converting it to a usable mental form is __________.

A)STM
B)connectionism
C)retrieval
D)encoding

Question 52

__________ wrote a review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior.This review clearly illustrated the shortcomings of the behaviorist account of language.

A)Descartes
B)James
C)Watson
D)Chomsky

Question 53

In response to an easy question,a person is likely to answer quicker than if a hard question was asked.With a sufficiently powerful experiment,it is likely that a statistical analysis would reveal that __________.

A)response times would be lower for difficult questions than for easy questions
B)response times would be higher for difficult questions than for easy questions
C)response times would not differ for easy and difficult questions
D)not enough information has been provided

Question 54

The cognitive manifesto is associated with __________.

A)Thorndike
B)Chomsky
C)Sperling
D)Bartlett

Question 55

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of a strict serial processing approach?

A)independent and nonoverlapping stages
B)sequential stages of processing
C)Response times indicate processing duration.
D)parallel processing

Question 56

The word frequency effect illustrates __________.

A)serial exhaustive processing of the memory set
B)congruency effects
C)the fact that common words produce larger response times
D)the fact that common words produce smaller response times

Question 57

Which of the following is NOT part of the "standard theory"?

A)long-term memory
B)sensory register
C)STM/working memory
D)explicit memory

Question 58

In cognition,STM almost always refers to __________.

A)sensory terminal memory
B)short-term memory
C)salience to me
D)standard theory of memory

Question 59

Which of the following is a common analogy used by cognitive psychologists to describe or characterize how people think?

A)attention
B)digital computer
C)context
D)structuralist perspective

Question 60

What is a good means of assessing how much a person remembers from something they read earlier?

A)response time
B)accuracy
C)verbal reports
D)content analysis

Question 61

In terms of the flow of information processing,___________ is an influence of environmental factors on thought,whereas ____________ is an influence of prior conceptions or expectations on thought.

A)bottom-up processing; top-down processing
B)top-down processing; bottom-up processing
C)reality-based processing; imagination-based processing
D)imagination-based processing; reality-based processing

Question 62

The "standard model of memory" refers to an information-processing model of human cognition.

Question 63

The Atkinson & Shiffrin model (1968,1971)provides a useful summary of overall cognitive function.

Question 64

The study of cognition is more fruitful when considered in the context of an understanding of neuroscience.

Question 65

What is the name for the larger discipline that cognitive psychology is a part of,and that also includes disciplines like computer science,anthropology,and philosophy?

A)mind science
B)cognitive science
C)mental matters
D)arts and science

Question 66

Our awareness of our own cognition and knowledge and insight into its workings is __________.

A)response time
B)attention
C)self-actualization
D)metacognition

Question 67

Reductionism was the first major psychological approach.

Question 68

What theme of the textbook takes the assumption that cognition functions in a way to capture the ways in which people interact with the world?

A)embodiment
B)metacognition
C)representation
D)conceptually driven processing

Question 69

What of the following is NOT a discipline in cognitive science?

A)computer science
B)anthropology
C)architecture
D)philosophy

Question 70

Wundt believed strongly that the proper topic for psychology was "conscious processes and immediate experience."

Question 71

What is the term used for the regulation of cognitive resources?

A)systemization
B)mental management
C)cerebral guidance
D)attention

Question 72

How can context influence processing?

A)It can guide the flow of cognition.
B)There are no clear influences.
C)by situating the information
D)through a process of content restriction

Question 73

The study of aggression was a major contributor to the paradigm shift away from behaviorism.

Question 74

The concept of channel capacity,while important for information processing,is not as relevant for cognitive psychology.

Question 75

The basic idea behinds Donder's use of response times is that response time reflects the difficulty of mental processes.

Question 76

Overall,behaviorism contributed in a positive manner to the development of many tools we use when investigating topics in cognitive psychology.

Question 77

Wundt established the first psychological laboratory.

Question 78

A cognitive revolution is part of our day-to-day existence (e.g.,whenever we change our minds).

Question 79

The information-processing approach is a general model of human memory and cognitive systems.

Question 80

Low-frequency words produce faster RTs than high-frequency words.