Chapter 1 post-test Exam Questions and Answers

Chapter 1 post-test Exam Questions and Answers Which of these statements accurately describes cognition? -Answer-Almost everything we do involves it What technique did early psychologists use when studying research subjects' reactions to visual and auditory stimuli? -Answer-Self-reporting What effect did Noam Chomsky have on cognitive psychology? -Answer-He caused cognitive psychologists to rely less on behaviorism Which of these approaches to cognitive psychology have become influential in the past two to three decades? -Answer-embodied cognition, representationalism, biological perspective Which approach to the study of cognition contends that we store knowledge in our brains as symbols that help us identify objects? -Answer-representationalism How has widespread use of the scientific method improved cognitive psychology? - Answer-It provides researcher with a common set of core principles they can all agree on and use What is the difference between a dependent variable and an independent variable? - Answer-The researchers measures the dependent variable and manipulates the independent variable