Exam 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction

Hermann Ebbinghaus was the first person to systematically study __________.

People first began wondering about how the mind worked __________.

Wundt wanted to study "conscious processes and immediate experience." How do the research tools (equipment and methodology)that are available today contribute to a greater understanding of "conscious processes and immediate experience" than was possible using trained introspection and structuralism?

According to behaviorists and neobehaviorists,the ultimate purpose of research on learning was to understand __________.

The cognitive manifesto is associated with __________.

The study of aggression was a major contributor to the paradigm shift away from behaviorism.

The Atkinson & Shiffrin model (1968,1971)provides a useful summary of overall cognitive function.

The mental process of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval is __________.

Describe the important features of behaviorism.

Reductionism was the first major psychological approach.

How many milliseconds in a second?

What is the information-processing approach?

The essence of Chomsky's review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior book was that __________.

Which is true of Ebbinghaus?

Reductionism is __________.

Draw a schematic of the general process model proposed by Sternberg to account for performance during a lexical decision task.What are its stages?

The Atkinson & Shiffrin model provides a useful summary of overall cognitive function.What does a process model add to the description (i.e.,what do we gain by using a process model)?

Wundt believed strongly that the proper topic for psychology was "conscious processes and immediate experience."

The student of mental activity and thinking,broadly conceived,is called __________.

It is broadly accepted that behaviorist accounts of language are seriously flawed.Why? (Note: be sure to evaluate more than just Chomsky's response to Skinner.)