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

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

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

    Who is considered the father of human memory research?

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

    Who is the founder of behaviorism?

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

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

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

    What are the three assumptions made in psychology

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

    Where did Aristotle believe the mind was located?

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

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

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

    Behaviourism was the response to which theory?

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

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

    <p>Behaviourism. By learning without responding</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</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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