Exam 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction

In response to an easy question,a person is likely to answer quicker than if a hard question was asked.With a sufficiently powerful experiment,it is likely that a statistical analysis would reveal that __________.

What are the three major assumptions of cognitive psychology? Why is each considered important?

Accounts positing independent nonoverlapping stages of processing are referred to as __________.

Wundt established the first psychological laboratory.

Identify two important contributions of behaviorism to cognitive psychology.

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of a strict serial processing approach?

Recent developments within cognitive psychology have contributed to the development of the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science.Describe how the contributions of both neurophysiology and computer science have helped us to understand more about how people think.

The sentence "I do not have to attend to what the cat will eat tomorrow" includes ten occurrences of the letter T.The Radvansky and Ashcraft text argues that people's difficulties in finding all of the Ts reflects __________.

Which of the following is NOT part of the "standard theory"?

What is the name for the larger discipline that cognitive psychology is a part of,and that also includes disciplines like computer science,anthropology,and philosophy?

The Atkinson & Shiffrin model provides a useful summary of overall cognitive function.Their model is normally referred to as __________.

Which was NOT a reason for the rise to dominance of behaviorism?

____________ is the scientific study of human memory and mental processes,including such activities as perceiving,remembering,using language,reasoning,and problem solving.

When did the cognitive revolution occur?

How can context influence processing?

Which of the following was an outgrowth of Ebbinghaus's work on memory?

The act of taking in information and converting it to a usable mental form is __________.

What are the two major assumptions of the strict information-processing approach?

Which of the following is NOT true?

Describe two important causes that contributed to the cognitive revolution.