COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 EXAM WITH CORRECT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1
EXAM WITH CORRECT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2025


cognitive psychology - CORRECT-ANSWERS- refers to all processes by which sensory input is


transmitted, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used


innate knowledge - CORRECT-ANSWERS- belief that humans are born already possessing


knowledge about the world


- emphasized by Aristotle


- nature


tabula rasa - CORRECT-ANSWERS- blank slate; everything we know, think, feel, and all


behaviors are learned after birth


- emphasized by Plato


- nurture


structuralism - CORRECT-ANSWERS- Wilhelm Wundt


- the belief that consciousness can be broken into elements of sensation and perception

, consciousness - CORRECT-ANSWERS- the awareness people have about outside world and


their perceptions, images, memories, and feelings


introspection - CORRECT-ANSWERS- Wilhelm Wundt and Structuralism


- subjective observation of one's own experience


- bad method


savings curve - CORRECT-ANSWERS- Herman Ebbinghaus


- shows that memory drops rapidly for the first 2 days after initial learning, then levels off


functionalism - CORRECT-ANSWERS- William James


- interest in how the mind adapts to function in an individuals environment


- James was heavily influenced by Darwin's origin of species


behaviorism - CORRECT-ANSWERS- John B. Watson


- believed that psychology should focus on only observable behaviors and their reactions to


stimuli in the environment


- also known as the S.R. approach


- heavily influenced by Pavlov


operational definition - CORRECT-ANSWERS- B.F. Skinner