PSYC 230 LEARNING CHECK TEST QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Cognitive psychology: what is it?
the scientific investigation of mental functions like perception and sensation.
decision-making, language, memory, and attention, among other things.
How is cognition studied?
Develop innovative approaches to the study of the mind through experimental
psychology.
Investigating how impairments in various brain regions impact cognition is the
focus of cognitive neuropsychology and neuroscience.
Computer modelling is the process of simulating the human mind in a
computer.
Views on cognitive psychology in the early 1800s
People believed that since something couldn't study itself, the mind couldn't
study the mind.
Late 1800s' stance on cognitive psych: 1. _______________ Reaction time, or
RT, in decision-making.
_______________ 2. The duration of forgetting
_______________ 3. Too subjective is analytical reflection.
1. Donder
2. Ebbinghaus
, 3. Wundt
What emerges from the early 1900s perspective on cognitive psychology?
Behaviourism
Who disputes behaviorism's argument?
According to a study by Tolman, rats create internal mental maps and learn
more quickly when they follow them rather than when someone is rewarded for
a particular behaviour.
What had become of cognitive psychology by the middle of the twentieth
century?
As AI and computers proliferated, the area of cognition emerged, and the first
textbook was released.
What are a neuron's primary components?
The cell body is the neuron's metabolic centre, or FACTORY, which sustains
the neurone.
Dendrites are responsible for receiving impulses from other neurones.
Signals are sent to other neurones by axons.
How does the nervous system represent and transmit information?
Action potentials in the synapse communicate information through
neurotransmitters.
Explain and illustrate double dissociation, which is the impairment of one
cognitive function but not another.
Ex: Frontal lobe loss causes Broca's aphasia, which makes it difficult to talk yet
allows one to understand words.
CORRECT ANSWERS
Cognitive psychology: what is it?
the scientific investigation of mental functions like perception and sensation.
decision-making, language, memory, and attention, among other things.
How is cognition studied?
Develop innovative approaches to the study of the mind through experimental
psychology.
Investigating how impairments in various brain regions impact cognition is the
focus of cognitive neuropsychology and neuroscience.
Computer modelling is the process of simulating the human mind in a
computer.
Views on cognitive psychology in the early 1800s
People believed that since something couldn't study itself, the mind couldn't
study the mind.
Late 1800s' stance on cognitive psych: 1. _______________ Reaction time, or
RT, in decision-making.
_______________ 2. The duration of forgetting
_______________ 3. Too subjective is analytical reflection.
1. Donder
2. Ebbinghaus
, 3. Wundt
What emerges from the early 1900s perspective on cognitive psychology?
Behaviourism
Who disputes behaviorism's argument?
According to a study by Tolman, rats create internal mental maps and learn
more quickly when they follow them rather than when someone is rewarded for
a particular behaviour.
What had become of cognitive psychology by the middle of the twentieth
century?
As AI and computers proliferated, the area of cognition emerged, and the first
textbook was released.
What are a neuron's primary components?
The cell body is the neuron's metabolic centre, or FACTORY, which sustains
the neurone.
Dendrites are responsible for receiving impulses from other neurones.
Signals are sent to other neurones by axons.
How does the nervous system represent and transmit information?
Action potentials in the synapse communicate information through
neurotransmitters.
Explain and illustrate double dissociation, which is the impairment of one
cognitive function but not another.
Ex: Frontal lobe loss causes Broca's aphasia, which makes it difficult to talk yet
allows one to understand words.
