Psychology: Donders vs Ebbinghaus Cognitive Processes Quiz

Wilhelm Wundt's method of analytic introspection was considered highly objective and easy to verify.

Hermann Ebbinghaus' research showed that memory levels off within the first two days after learning nonsense syllables.

James' Principles of Psychology textbook covered a wide range of topics including reasoning and rationalism.

According to Ebbinghaus, savings in memory refers to the decrease in the number of attempts needed to recall information accurately over time.

Wilhelm Wundt's psychological laboratory marked a shift from empiricism to rationalism in the field of psychology.

According to Donders's subtractive logic, neural activity represents the stimulus when a person silently reads a word.

Process models in modern cognitive psychology describe the brain ('hardware') rather than the mind ('software').

According to modern cognitive psychology, models are never updated or revised, only falsified.

Neuroimaging allows direct observation and measurement of mental processes in the brain.

Structural models in cognitive psychology focus on describing cognitive processes at the level of individual neurons.

The cognitive revolution of the 1950s led to a decline in interest in understanding the mind.

James (1890) described attention as 'diversion from some things in order to effectively deal with others.'

Colin Cherry's experiment instructed participants to focus on the right ear and ignore the left ear.

Donald Broadbent's model of attention was depicted in the first flow diagram of the mind.

John McCarthy proposed Artificial Intelligence with the aim of making machines behave intelligently like humans.