COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY FINAL PAPER
FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
●● Mental representations
Answer: Internal structures or symbols that stand for objects, ideas, or
concepts in the world.
●● Information processing
Answer: The view that the mind takes in input, transforms it through
stages, and produces output.
●● Scientific method (in cognition)
Answer: Using hypotheses, controlled observation, and data to study
mental processes.
●● Rationalism
Answer: The belief that knowledge comes primarily from reason and
innate mental structures.
●● Empiricism
Answer: The belief that knowledge comes primarily from sensory
experience.
, ●● Plato
Answer: An ancient philosopher who argued that true knowledge is
innate and that sensory experience can be misleading.
●● Innate knowledge
Answer: Knowledge that is present at birth rather than learned through
experience.
●● Forms
Answer: Perfect, abstract ideas that exist independently of physical
objects.
●● Allegory of the cave
Answer: A metaphor showing that people often mistake sensory
appearances for reality.
●● Aristotle
Answer: An ancient philosopher who argued that knowledge comes from
experience and observation.
●● Tabula rasa
Answer: The idea that the mind begins as a blank slate.
FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
●● Mental representations
Answer: Internal structures or symbols that stand for objects, ideas, or
concepts in the world.
●● Information processing
Answer: The view that the mind takes in input, transforms it through
stages, and produces output.
●● Scientific method (in cognition)
Answer: Using hypotheses, controlled observation, and data to study
mental processes.
●● Rationalism
Answer: The belief that knowledge comes primarily from reason and
innate mental structures.
●● Empiricism
Answer: The belief that knowledge comes primarily from sensory
experience.
, ●● Plato
Answer: An ancient philosopher who argued that true knowledge is
innate and that sensory experience can be misleading.
●● Innate knowledge
Answer: Knowledge that is present at birth rather than learned through
experience.
●● Forms
Answer: Perfect, abstract ideas that exist independently of physical
objects.
●● Allegory of the cave
Answer: A metaphor showing that people often mistake sensory
appearances for reality.
●● Aristotle
Answer: An ancient philosopher who argued that knowledge comes from
experience and observation.
●● Tabula rasa
Answer: The idea that the mind begins as a blank slate.
