HISTORY, HISTORY, HISTORY cog psych Week 1 reading
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HISTORY, HISTORY, HISTORY cog psych Week 1 reading

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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</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which cognitive aspect did Donders' research primarily address?

    <p>Attention</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the focus of Ebbinghaus' early experimental research?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    <p>Broadbent</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</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</p> Signup and view all the answers

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