Cognitive Psych exam questions

The main point of the Donders’s reaction time experiments was to

measure the amount of time it takes to make a decision.

A mental conception of the layout of a physical space is known as a(n)

cognitive map.

Broadbent’s model of attention MOST closely resembles a flow diagram of which?

Computer

What does the field of neuropsychology study?

Behavior of people with brain damage

Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment as indicating how long it took to

make a decision about the stimulus.

Regarding children’s language development, Noam Chomsky noted that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. From this, he concluded that language development is driven largely by

an inborn biological program.

When Janeese views an object briefly flashed on screen in the context of a newspaper route, which is MOST likely to be identified?

Mailbox

Who proposed that children’s language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement?

B. F. Skinner

In which year was positron emission tomography (PET) introduced, making it possible to see which areas of the human brain are activated during cognitive activity?

1976

How long does sensory memory last?

Less than 1 second

Which of the following terms is correct in context with “Pairing one stimulus with another”?

Classical conditioning

Wundt’s procedure in which trained participants describe their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli presented under controlled conditions is known as

analytic introspection.

How did the introduction of the digital computer influence cognitive psychology?

Theorists began to model the way the brain works in stages after the information processing model of computers.

Which has multiple sub-types of memory?

Long-term

The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called

cognitive psychology.

Which is the main implication of Palmer’s experiments with having participants identify target objects in context of a scene?

Knowledge of the environment can influence perception

Who coined the term cognitive psychology?

Neisser

Which book was written by Thomas Kuhn?

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Which of the following events is MOST closely associated with a resurgence in interest in the mind within the study of psychology?

Skinner’s publication of the book, Verbal Behavior

Another way of describing long-term memory is which?

Episodic