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What is the main focus of cognitive psychology?

  • Scientific study of the mind (correct)
  • Understanding brain anatomy
  • Exploring social interactions
  • Studying human behavior

Which cognitive function involves the ability to select and concentrate on certain stimuli while ignoring others?

  • Perception
  • Memory
  • Attention (correct)
  • Representation

What role does the mind play in creating representations of the world to enable us to function?

  • Generating attention
  • Developing perception
  • Constructing representations (correct)
  • Creating memory

What type of experimental research did Donders and Ebbinghaus conduct?

<p>Reaction time investigations (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which cognitive aspect did Donders' research primarily address?

<p>Attention (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the focus of Ebbinghaus' early experimental research?

<p>Nonsense syllable retention (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is it challenging to directly observe the operation of the mind?

<p>The mind's operation can only be measured indirectly through behavior or physiological responding (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which principle of cognitive psychology emphasizes the need to infer the operation of the mind from measurable indicators?

<p>Principle of mental representation (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the dominant theoretical approach of the first laboratory of scientific psychology founded by Wundt in 1879?

<p>Structuralism (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which method was one of the major methods used to collect data in the first laboratory of scientific psychology?

<p>Analytic introspection (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology concerned largely with studying the mind?

<p>Wilhelm Wundt (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the basis of William James' textbook, Principles of Psychology?

<p>Observations of his own mind (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which theoretical approach was founded in reaction to structuralism and the method of analytic introspection in the early 20th century?

<p>Behaviorism (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which method did John Watson's behaviorism primarily rely on for its procedures?

<p>Classical conditioning (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which psychologist's work ensured that behaviorism would dominate psychology in the 1950s?

<p>B. F. Skinner (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who conducted influential research on operant conditioning in the 1930s and 1940s?

<p>B. F. Skinner (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What term did Edward Tolman use to describe himself, even though he studied cognitive processes that were outside the mainstream of behaviorism?

<p>Neobehaviorist (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were the events that led to the cognitive revolution in the 1950s?

<p>Chomsky’s critique of Skinner’s book Verbal Behavior (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who introduced the idea that the mind processes information in stages, like a computer?

<p>Broadbent (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What notable developments in cognitive psychology were identified in the decades following Neisser's book?

<p>Focus on cognition in real-world contexts (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was a significant focus of cognitive psychology in the decades following Neisser's book?

<p>Exploration of the role of knowledge in cognition (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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