PSY 200 MSU EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PSY 200 MSU EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. Cognitive Psychology
Answer:
The study of the mind, the study of mental processes

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2. Mental Processes
Answer:
-Perception
-Attention
-Memory
-Language
-Deciding
-Reasoning
-Judgement

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3. Machine Learning Attacks against the Asirra CAPTCHA
Answer:
Computer attempt to recognize cats. Humans- 83.4% correct in one try Machine- 10.3% correct in one try

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4. Perspectives on the mind
Answer:
Behavior --> The mind Brain -->The Mind

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5. Behavior
Answer:
-Main focus of cognitive psychology
-Expression of the mind

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6. Brain
Answer:
-Main focus of cognitive neuroscience
-Physical basis of the mind

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7. History of cognitive psychology

, Answer:
-Physics begain in the 1600 with Galilei and newton in the 1600s
-Modern Chemistry began in the 1700 with Boyle and Lavoiser
-Beginning of cognitive psychology is somewhere in the 1800s.
-It is a young field because no one knew where to begin

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8. Early work
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innovations and debate on whether and how to even measure mental processes

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9. Introspection
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1st attempt to measure the mind.
-It is a way of measuring the mind.

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10. Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
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Analytic introspection
-Systematic
-Highly trained observers

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11. Periodic Table of the Mind
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Finds the basic sensations (atoms) from which experiences are built

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12. William James (1842- 1910)
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Based on his own insights on introspection
-His method of introspection was to use himself. It was how he thought of thing; he was the experimental
subject.
-Deep thinker; not systematic

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13. Problems with introspection
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-Hard to get reproducible results
-Variability
-List of basic sensations did not agree
-Not objective <-- Psychology struggles with objectivity

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14. Common Characteristics (early more objective approaches)