PSYC 230 Midterm 2025/2026 Exam
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cognitive psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔concerned with the scientific study
of the mind
cognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mental processes such as perception, attention,
memory that are hidden
experimental psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a way to study cognition
involving the conduction of human/animal experiments to draw conclusions
about the mind
neuropsychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔studying people with brain damage
donders - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔did early work in cognitive psychology measuring
decision making time (simple reaction time and choice reaction time)
, ebbinghaus - 🧠 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 - 🧠 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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔father of american psychology published
the first psychology textbook
tolman - 🧠 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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔had concerns with analytic introspection,
believed cognition was hard because
1. variable results person to person
Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
cognitive psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔concerned with the scientific study
of the mind
cognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mental processes such as perception, attention,
memory that are hidden
experimental psychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a way to study cognition
involving the conduction of human/animal experiments to draw conclusions
about the mind
neuropsychology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔studying people with brain damage
donders - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔did early work in cognitive psychology measuring
decision making time (simple reaction time and choice reaction time)
, ebbinghaus - 🧠 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 - 🧠 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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔father of american psychology published
the first psychology textbook
tolman - 🧠 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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔had concerns with analytic introspection,
believed cognition was hard because
1. variable results person to person
