Chapter 1 Cognitive Psych Updated Actual Questions With Correct Answers

CHAPTER 1 COGNITIVE PSYCH UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Question 1.
Franciscus Donders (1868)

ANSWER
physiologist who performed the first cognitive psychology experiment


Question 2.
Wilhelm Wundt (1879)

ANSWER
scientist who established the first laboratory of scientific psychology


Question 3.
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885)

ANSWER
psychologist who studied the quantitative measurement of mental processes


Question 4.
William James (1890)

ANSWER
psychologist who wrote the first psychology textbook; some of his observations are still valid
today


Question 5.
Mind

ANSWER
system that creates mental representations of the world and controls mental functions




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, Question 6.
Cognition

ANSWER
mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving,
reasoning, and decision making


Question 7.
Cognitive Psychol ogy

ANSWER
- scientific study of the mind and mental processes


Question 8.
Reaction Time

ANSWER
measurement of how long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus


Question 9.
Simple Reaction Time

ANSWER
measurement of how long it takes to respond to a single stimulus


Question 10.
Choice Reaction Time

ANSWER
measurement of how long it takes to react to one of multiple stimuli


Question 11.
Structuralism

ANSWER
approach to psychology that explained perception as the combination of small elementary
units called sensations




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