PSYC2480 FINAL 100 QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025
Which of these has become one of the dominant approaches in contemporary
psychology?
- structuralism
-information processing
- psychoanalysis
- analytic introspection - ANSWER- information processing
As a student sat down to take a final exam in a history class, what did the student
draw upon to answer the 100 questions?
- sensory memory
- procedural memory
- long term memory
- episodic memory - ANSWER- long term memory
The decline in shopping at brick-and-mortar stores and the explosion of online
shopping can be considered a shift in
- semantics
- paradigms
- cognitive maps
- sensations - ANSWER- paradigms
,Which of these would best fit Watson's approach to psychological research?
- watching people react to a scary movie
- having people run a maze then draw it
- listening to people describe an experience
- scanning the brains of people doing math - ANSWER- watching people react to a
scary movie
In an experiment, a rat can choose between hitting a blue button (which provides a
snack) or a yellow button (which provides a shock). In each round of the
experiment, the buttons may or may not switch colors. This experiment combines
elements of which two researchers?
- Donders and Skinner
- Tolman and Watson
- Miller and Donders
- Watson and Ebbinghaus - ANSWER- Donders and Skinner
Two gaps in Neisser's cognitive psychology textbook were the coverage of
- processing visual and auditory sensations
- higher mental processes and physiology
- using visual information to see patterns
- taking in information and holding it in the brain - ANSWER- higher mental
processes and physiology
A graduate student is participating in a university research study inspired by the
work of Stephen Palmer. The study is likely focused on measuring the graduate
student's level of
- short term rehearsal
, - contextual knowledge
- cognitive mapping
- artificial intelligence - ANSWER- Contextual knowledge
A child has perfected the skill of tuning out their parent's lectures about doing
dishes while still being able to text friends and listen to music on their phone. What
concept is the child displaying?
a. Kuhn's paradigm shift
b. Tolman's cognitive map
c. Tulving's procedural memory
d. Broadbent's filter - ANSWER- Broadbent's filter
A nonhuman animal might learn how to navigate a maze through the use of
- savings curve
- analytic introspection
- cognitive map
- artificial intelligence - ANSWER- Cognitive map
The correct pair of a researcher with a core concept of their work is
a. Watson - sensation
b. Broadbent - imaging
c. Skinner - Cognitive maps
d. James - attention - ANSWER- James - attention
You studied a lot of information to ace this quiz. According to Ebbinghaus, when
will the rate at which you begin to forget the information begin to level off?
VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025
Which of these has become one of the dominant approaches in contemporary
psychology?
- structuralism
-information processing
- psychoanalysis
- analytic introspection - ANSWER- information processing
As a student sat down to take a final exam in a history class, what did the student
draw upon to answer the 100 questions?
- sensory memory
- procedural memory
- long term memory
- episodic memory - ANSWER- long term memory
The decline in shopping at brick-and-mortar stores and the explosion of online
shopping can be considered a shift in
- semantics
- paradigms
- cognitive maps
- sensations - ANSWER- paradigms
,Which of these would best fit Watson's approach to psychological research?
- watching people react to a scary movie
- having people run a maze then draw it
- listening to people describe an experience
- scanning the brains of people doing math - ANSWER- watching people react to a
scary movie
In an experiment, a rat can choose between hitting a blue button (which provides a
snack) or a yellow button (which provides a shock). In each round of the
experiment, the buttons may or may not switch colors. This experiment combines
elements of which two researchers?
- Donders and Skinner
- Tolman and Watson
- Miller and Donders
- Watson and Ebbinghaus - ANSWER- Donders and Skinner
Two gaps in Neisser's cognitive psychology textbook were the coverage of
- processing visual and auditory sensations
- higher mental processes and physiology
- using visual information to see patterns
- taking in information and holding it in the brain - ANSWER- higher mental
processes and physiology
A graduate student is participating in a university research study inspired by the
work of Stephen Palmer. The study is likely focused on measuring the graduate
student's level of
- short term rehearsal
, - contextual knowledge
- cognitive mapping
- artificial intelligence - ANSWER- Contextual knowledge
A child has perfected the skill of tuning out their parent's lectures about doing
dishes while still being able to text friends and listen to music on their phone. What
concept is the child displaying?
a. Kuhn's paradigm shift
b. Tolman's cognitive map
c. Tulving's procedural memory
d. Broadbent's filter - ANSWER- Broadbent's filter
A nonhuman animal might learn how to navigate a maze through the use of
- savings curve
- analytic introspection
- cognitive map
- artificial intelligence - ANSWER- Cognitive map
The correct pair of a researcher with a core concept of their work is
a. Watson - sensation
b. Broadbent - imaging
c. Skinner - Cognitive maps
d. James - attention - ANSWER- James - attention
You studied a lot of information to ace this quiz. According to Ebbinghaus, when
will the rate at which you begin to forget the information begin to level off?
