psyc230 test 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is cog psyc? - CORRECT ANSWER -branch of psych concerned with the scientific
study of the mind
cognition refers to - CORRECT ANSWER -the mental processes such as perception,
attention, and memory
FC Donders - CORRECT ANSWER -measured how long it takes a person to make a
decision - mental responses cannot be measured directly but can be inferred. Determined it took
1/10th of a second
Willhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER -established first scientific psych lab, developed
structuralist approach, used analytic introspection
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER -overall experience is determined by combining
basic elements of experience called sensations
analytic introspection - CORRECT ANSWER -participants trained to describe stimuli and
thought processes in response to stimuli
Ebbinghaus - CORRECT ANSWER -memory and forgetting - used himself as a subject
for studying memory of nonsense syllables
William James - CORRECT ANSWER -early american psychologist who taught the first
psych course at harvard
John Watson - CORRECT ANSWER -proposed behaviorism - said analytic introspection
had variable results and was difficult to verify results.
, Behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER -Proposed by john watson, eliminate the mind as a
topic of study, instead, study directly observable behavior
Watson and Rayner - CORRECT ANSWER -Little albert experiment - 9 month old
became frightened of rat paired with loud noise, associated the two.
Behaviorism approach was dominant from the - CORRECT ANSWER -1940s through the
1960s
Tolman - CORRECT ANSWER -trained rats to find food in a four armed maze. Idea of
cognitive map within the rats mind.
Skinner vs chomsky - CORRECT ANSWER -verbal behavior, argued children learn
language through operant conditioning. Chomsky argued that it is not only due to these factors.
Cognitive revolution - CORRECT ANSWER -around 1954, shift from behaviorists
stimulus-response and shifted to an information processing approach, alongside introduction of
the computer
Information processing approach - CORRECT ANSWER -way to study the mind based on
insights associated with the digital computer. States that operation of the mind occurs in stages
Atkinson and Shiffrin - CORRECT ANSWER -sensory memory less than 1 second, short
term memory(a few seconds ago, limited capacity), long duration high capacity
Tulving - CORRECT ANSWER -divided long term memory into three components
(episodic, semantic, and procedural memory)
Main parts of a nueron - CORRECT ANSWER -cell body/soma, axon, dendrites
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is cog psyc? - CORRECT ANSWER -branch of psych concerned with the scientific
study of the mind
cognition refers to - CORRECT ANSWER -the mental processes such as perception,
attention, and memory
FC Donders - CORRECT ANSWER -measured how long it takes a person to make a
decision - mental responses cannot be measured directly but can be inferred. Determined it took
1/10th of a second
Willhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER -established first scientific psych lab, developed
structuralist approach, used analytic introspection
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER -overall experience is determined by combining
basic elements of experience called sensations
analytic introspection - CORRECT ANSWER -participants trained to describe stimuli and
thought processes in response to stimuli
Ebbinghaus - CORRECT ANSWER -memory and forgetting - used himself as a subject
for studying memory of nonsense syllables
William James - CORRECT ANSWER -early american psychologist who taught the first
psych course at harvard
John Watson - CORRECT ANSWER -proposed behaviorism - said analytic introspection
had variable results and was difficult to verify results.
, Behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER -Proposed by john watson, eliminate the mind as a
topic of study, instead, study directly observable behavior
Watson and Rayner - CORRECT ANSWER -Little albert experiment - 9 month old
became frightened of rat paired with loud noise, associated the two.
Behaviorism approach was dominant from the - CORRECT ANSWER -1940s through the
1960s
Tolman - CORRECT ANSWER -trained rats to find food in a four armed maze. Idea of
cognitive map within the rats mind.
Skinner vs chomsky - CORRECT ANSWER -verbal behavior, argued children learn
language through operant conditioning. Chomsky argued that it is not only due to these factors.
Cognitive revolution - CORRECT ANSWER -around 1954, shift from behaviorists
stimulus-response and shifted to an information processing approach, alongside introduction of
the computer
Information processing approach - CORRECT ANSWER -way to study the mind based on
insights associated with the digital computer. States that operation of the mind occurs in stages
Atkinson and Shiffrin - CORRECT ANSWER -sensory memory less than 1 second, short
term memory(a few seconds ago, limited capacity), long duration high capacity
Tulving - CORRECT ANSWER -divided long term memory into three components
(episodic, semantic, and procedural memory)
Main parts of a nueron - CORRECT ANSWER -cell body/soma, axon, dendrites
