psyc 230 midterm ACTUAL UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
cognitive psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -concerned with the scientific study of the
mind
cognition - CORRECT ANSWER -mental processes such as perception, attention,
memory that are hidden
experimental psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -a way to study cognition involving the
conduction of human/animal experiments to draw conclusions about the mind
neuropsychology - CORRECT ANSWER -studying people with brain damage
donders - CORRECT ANSWER -did early work in cognitive psychology measuring
decision making time (simple reaction time and choice reaction time)
ebbinghaus - CORRECT ANSWER -forgetting curve
forgetting occurs rapidly over the first two days and then slowly after that
savings (original time to learn a list - time to relearn list after a delay) looked at the %
saved/remembered
wundt - CORRECT ANSWER -structuralism: overall experience is determined by
combining basic elements of experience (sensations)
analytic introspection: participants were trained to describe experiences/thought processes in
response to stimuli
william james - CORRECT ANSWER -father of american psychology published the first
psychology textbook
, tolman - CORRECT ANSWER -worked with rats to create the idea of the cognitive map,
the rats were able to find the reward even when placed in different parts of a maze because they
formed a conceptualization of the map in their minds
john watson - CORRECT ANSWER -had concerns with analytic introspection, believed
cognition was hard because
1. variable results person to person
2. inner processes are invisible
he proposed behaviors and wanted to eliminate the mind as an area of study
skinner - CORRECT ANSWER -operant conditioning, argued that children only learned
language through operant conditioning which chomsky disagreed with
cognitive revolution - CORRECT ANSWER -began in the 1950's, shifted away from
behaviorist's stimulus-response approach to an approach that attempted to explain behavior in
terms of the mind
information processing approach - CORRECT ANSWER -way to study the mind based on
insights with the digital computer, states that the operation of the mind occurs in stages
feature detectors - CORRECT ANSWER -neurons that respond best do a specific stimulus
due to experience with it (experience dependent plasticity)
specificity coding - CORRECT ANSWER -representation of a stimulus by the firing of
neurons that are specifically specialized to respond only to that stimulus
population coding - CORRECT ANSWER -representation of a stimulus by the pattern of
firing of a large number of neurons
sparse coding - CORRECT ANSWER -representation of a stimulus by a pattern of firing
of a small group of neurons with the majority staying silent
Questions and CORRECT Answers
cognitive psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -concerned with the scientific study of the
mind
cognition - CORRECT ANSWER -mental processes such as perception, attention,
memory that are hidden
experimental psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -a way to study cognition involving the
conduction of human/animal experiments to draw conclusions about the mind
neuropsychology - CORRECT ANSWER -studying people with brain damage
donders - CORRECT ANSWER -did early work in cognitive psychology measuring
decision making time (simple reaction time and choice reaction time)
ebbinghaus - CORRECT ANSWER -forgetting curve
forgetting occurs rapidly over the first two days and then slowly after that
savings (original time to learn a list - time to relearn list after a delay) looked at the %
saved/remembered
wundt - CORRECT ANSWER -structuralism: overall experience is determined by
combining basic elements of experience (sensations)
analytic introspection: participants were trained to describe experiences/thought processes in
response to stimuli
william james - CORRECT ANSWER -father of american psychology published the first
psychology textbook
, tolman - CORRECT ANSWER -worked with rats to create the idea of the cognitive map,
the rats were able to find the reward even when placed in different parts of a maze because they
formed a conceptualization of the map in their minds
john watson - CORRECT ANSWER -had concerns with analytic introspection, believed
cognition was hard because
1. variable results person to person
2. inner processes are invisible
he proposed behaviors and wanted to eliminate the mind as an area of study
skinner - CORRECT ANSWER -operant conditioning, argued that children only learned
language through operant conditioning which chomsky disagreed with
cognitive revolution - CORRECT ANSWER -began in the 1950's, shifted away from
behaviorist's stimulus-response approach to an approach that attempted to explain behavior in
terms of the mind
information processing approach - CORRECT ANSWER -way to study the mind based on
insights with the digital computer, states that the operation of the mind occurs in stages
feature detectors - CORRECT ANSWER -neurons that respond best do a specific stimulus
due to experience with it (experience dependent plasticity)
specificity coding - CORRECT ANSWER -representation of a stimulus by the firing of
neurons that are specifically specialized to respond only to that stimulus
population coding - CORRECT ANSWER -representation of a stimulus by the pattern of
firing of a large number of neurons
sparse coding - CORRECT ANSWER -representation of a stimulus by a pattern of firing
of a small group of neurons with the majority staying silent
