Cognitive Psychology UPDATED Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Hermann Ebbinghaus - CORRECT ANSWER - Studied memory using nonsense syllables
and the method of saving.
Edward Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER - Belonged to structuralism- break
consciousness down into its elements or specific mental structures. His work spawned 3 other
systems of thought: functionalism, behavioralism, and gesalt psychology. Wundt trained
psychologist
Noam Chomsky - CORRECT ANSWER - Distinguished between the surface structure and
deep structure of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one
sentence to another
Believed language study is the most viable route to understanding the mind.
Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER - Reaction time-
Elapsed time between stimulus presentation and the subject's response to it (Mental
chronometry).
Eye movements- An "on-line" measure of information processing; reading and language
comprehension
Brain imaging- used associate various cognitive processes with various parts of the brain.
Method of Saving - CORRECT ANSWER - after memorizing the initial list, he compared
the number of times he had to read the list in order to rememorize it. If he rememorized the list
faster than he originally memorized it, he concluded that he remembered something from the
first time.
, Subtracted # of trails it took to rememorize the list from the number of trails it originally took to
memorize the list. Divided quantity by the original number of trails and multiplied everything by
100 to come up with the percent.
Forgetting Curve - CORRECT ANSWER - Without practice, we forget rapidly then at a
certain point forgetting occurs at a much lesser rate.
Mental processes involved in memory - CORRECT ANSWER - Encoding- putting
information into memory
Storage- retaining information into memory
Retrieval- recovering the information from memory
Tip of the tongue phenomenon - CORRECT ANSWER - Problem with retrieval
Recall and Recognition - CORRECT ANSWER - Two most common methods of retrieval.
Recall- involves independently reproducing the information that you have been previously
exposed to
Recognition- involves realizing that a certain stimulus event is one you have seen or heard before
(MULTIPLE REST QUESTIONS ARE THIS!!!!!!!)
Generation-Recognition Model - CORRECT ANSWER - An attempt to explain why you
can usually recognize more than you can recall; model suggests that recall involves the same
mental process involved in recognition plus another process not required for recognition.
Recency Effect - CORRECT ANSWER - Words presented at the end of a list are
remembered best
Primacy effect - CORRECT ANSWER - Words presented at the beginning of a list are
remembered second best
and CORRECT Answers
Hermann Ebbinghaus - CORRECT ANSWER - Studied memory using nonsense syllables
and the method of saving.
Edward Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER - Belonged to structuralism- break
consciousness down into its elements or specific mental structures. His work spawned 3 other
systems of thought: functionalism, behavioralism, and gesalt psychology. Wundt trained
psychologist
Noam Chomsky - CORRECT ANSWER - Distinguished between the surface structure and
deep structure of a sentence; studied transformational rules that could be used to transform one
sentence to another
Believed language study is the most viable route to understanding the mind.
Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER - Reaction time-
Elapsed time between stimulus presentation and the subject's response to it (Mental
chronometry).
Eye movements- An "on-line" measure of information processing; reading and language
comprehension
Brain imaging- used associate various cognitive processes with various parts of the brain.
Method of Saving - CORRECT ANSWER - after memorizing the initial list, he compared
the number of times he had to read the list in order to rememorize it. If he rememorized the list
faster than he originally memorized it, he concluded that he remembered something from the
first time.
, Subtracted # of trails it took to rememorize the list from the number of trails it originally took to
memorize the list. Divided quantity by the original number of trails and multiplied everything by
100 to come up with the percent.
Forgetting Curve - CORRECT ANSWER - Without practice, we forget rapidly then at a
certain point forgetting occurs at a much lesser rate.
Mental processes involved in memory - CORRECT ANSWER - Encoding- putting
information into memory
Storage- retaining information into memory
Retrieval- recovering the information from memory
Tip of the tongue phenomenon - CORRECT ANSWER - Problem with retrieval
Recall and Recognition - CORRECT ANSWER - Two most common methods of retrieval.
Recall- involves independently reproducing the information that you have been previously
exposed to
Recognition- involves realizing that a certain stimulus event is one you have seen or heard before
(MULTIPLE REST QUESTIONS ARE THIS!!!!!!!)
Generation-Recognition Model - CORRECT ANSWER - An attempt to explain why you
can usually recognize more than you can recall; model suggests that recall involves the same
mental process involved in recognition plus another process not required for recognition.
Recency Effect - CORRECT ANSWER - Words presented at the end of a list are
remembered best
Primacy effect - CORRECT ANSWER - Words presented at the beginning of a list are
remembered second best
