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1.1. Describe the scope and goals of cognitive psychology.
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1.2. Understand the case of H.M., and the many ways that memory influences our lives.
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1.3. Describe the limitations of introspection as a method for scientific inquiry.
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1.4. Compare and contrast classical (Watsonian) behaviorism and cognitive psychology.
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1.5. Kant‘s ―transcendental method‖ is sometimes called ―inference to best explanation.‖ Explain this
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method and how it works.
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1.6. Describe the role, in the emergence of cognitive psychology, that was played by computer science
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and the development of ―computer intelligence.‖
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1. Which of the following topics is NOT commonly studied within cognitive psychology?
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2. Cognitive processes are NOT necessary for which daily activity?
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d. breathing

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3. Alyssa wants to be a psychologist but is unsure which topic within psychology most interests her.
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Which of the following topics would be LEAST likely to lead her into cognitive psychology?
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a. amnesia

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4. Consider the sequence ―Betsy wanted to bring Jacob a present. She shook her piggy bank.‖ Most peo
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ple, after hearing this sequence, believe Betsy was checking her piggy bank to see if she had money to spe
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nd on the gift. This inference about Betsy‘s goals depends on the fact that
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a. our previous knowledge fills in background information whenever we‘re understanding an event
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or conversation.
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b. readers are likely to know someone named Jacob.
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c. English, unlike other languages, requires speakers to mention all of the people involved in an
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event.

d. the individual sentences are short.
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5. Which of the following statements is LEAST likely to apply to patient H.M.?
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a. ―He cannot remember what he did earlier today, including events that took place just an hour
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ago.‖

b. ―He read this story last month, but he was still surprised by how the story turned out.‖
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c. ―Even though he has encountered the nurse many times, he is still unable to recognize her.‖
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d. ―He remembered that it was only a week ago that he‘d heard the sad news that his uncle had d
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ied.‖


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6. Research with H.M. provides an illustration for which major theme of the chapter?
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b. Cognitive psychology can help us understand a wide range of activities that depend on someone‘s
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ability to remember.
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d. The disruption caused by brain damage depends on how widespread the damage is, and not on the
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specific sites that are damaged.
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7. Patients suffering from clinical amnesia are characterized by
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8. The term ―introspection‖ refers to the
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a. process by which one individual seeks to infer the thoughts of another individual.
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b. procedure of examining thought processing by monitoring the brain‘s electrical activity.
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c. process of each person looking within, to observe his or her own thoughts and ideas.
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d. technique of studying thought by interpreting the symbols used in communication.
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