Lecture 1

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What are the three activities included within Memory?

  • Storing, Forgetting, Recalling
  • Encoding, Decoding, Processing
  • Perceiving, Remembering, Thinking
  • Acquisition, Retention, Retrieval (correct)

What does Empiricism emphasize in the formation of ideas?

  • The significance of unconscious thoughts
  • The influence of culture and society
  • The impact of genetic predispositions
  • The role of experience and evidence, especially sensory experience (correct)

What is Cognitive Psychology?

  • The scientific study of the mind (correct)
  • The study of behavior and emotion
  • An interdisciplinary approach to studying the mind
  • The study of acquiring and retaining information

What does Materialism assume?

<p>The only thing that exists is matter and energy (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Reductionism propose about a complex system?

<p>It is nothing but the sum of its parts, and an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Why am I aware?' and 'What happens when I die?' are related to which field mentioned in the text?

<p>Philosophy (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who started the first psychological laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879?

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

Who is considered the father of human memory research?

<p>Herman Ebbinghaus (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who attempted to explain personality, mental disorders & motivation in terms of unconscious determinants of behavior?

<p>Sigmund Freud (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is the founder of behaviorism?

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

Who insisted that psychological methods be as rigorous as the methods of chemistry & physics?

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

Who believed that human behavior can be fully explained with an adequate understanding of Stimulus-Response relationships?

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

What are the three assumptions made in psychology

<p>Materialism, reductionism, empiricism (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Plato's belief in psychology?

<p>The locus of the mind is the brain and the wax tablet analogy of perception (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where did Aristotle believe the mind was located?

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

Aristotle believe that human mental experiences have two components. What were they?

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

In the dark ages, it was believed that life requires a spiritual 'life force'. This is known as:

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

In the dark ages, it was believed that the mind is made of something qualitatively different from the physical. This is known as:

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

This theory attempts to explain personality, mental disorders, and motivation in terms of unconscious determinants of behaviour.

<p>psychoanalytic theory (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Behaviourism was the response to which theory?

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

A T-maze and a mouse challenged which theory and how?

<p>Behaviourism. By learning without responding (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

a psychological phenomenon suggesting that when individuals intentionally try to avoid thinking a certain thought or feeling a certain emotion, a paradoxical effect is produced

<p>theory of ironic processes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did the rise of the computer help establish a new way of thinking about the mind?

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