EXAM 1 - PSYC 380 (S. Upadhyay) QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Basic Research - ANSWER Breaking down complex mental processes to understand
how things work
Applied Research - ANSWER Generalizable to science in the real world
Cognitive Psychology - ANSWER Attempts to study not only what we are thinking, but
why and how we are thinking it
Factors of Cognitive Process - ANSWER - Memory
- Perception
- Emotion
- Reasoning
- Beliefs
Memory - ANSWER The mental processes of acquiring and retaining information for
later retrieval
Cognition - ANSWER The collection of mental processes and activities used in
perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding
Ecological Validity - ANSWER Research must resemble the situation and task demands
that are characteristic of the real world rather than rely on an artificial lab
Reductionism - ANSWER Scientific approach in which a complex event or behavior is
broken down into its constituents; individual constituents are then studied individually
- Eventually the pieces (of data) are put back together and deal with the data as a whole
Behaviorism - ANSWER School of psychology in which the organism's *observable
behavior* was the primary topic of interest
- Focused on just: *stimulus* and *response*
Leads to Forgetting - ANSWER 1. Encoding Failure → study
2. Storage Decay
3. Retrieval Failure → test
Encoding Failure - ANSWER Problem with *converting* information
CORRECT ANSWERS
Basic Research - ANSWER Breaking down complex mental processes to understand
how things work
Applied Research - ANSWER Generalizable to science in the real world
Cognitive Psychology - ANSWER Attempts to study not only what we are thinking, but
why and how we are thinking it
Factors of Cognitive Process - ANSWER - Memory
- Perception
- Emotion
- Reasoning
- Beliefs
Memory - ANSWER The mental processes of acquiring and retaining information for
later retrieval
Cognition - ANSWER The collection of mental processes and activities used in
perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding
Ecological Validity - ANSWER Research must resemble the situation and task demands
that are characteristic of the real world rather than rely on an artificial lab
Reductionism - ANSWER Scientific approach in which a complex event or behavior is
broken down into its constituents; individual constituents are then studied individually
- Eventually the pieces (of data) are put back together and deal with the data as a whole
Behaviorism - ANSWER School of psychology in which the organism's *observable
behavior* was the primary topic of interest
- Focused on just: *stimulus* and *response*
Leads to Forgetting - ANSWER 1. Encoding Failure → study
2. Storage Decay
3. Retrieval Failure → test
Encoding Failure - ANSWER Problem with *converting* information
