PSYC 230 Midterm 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Answers | 100% Solved
What is Cognitive Psychology? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cognitive Psychology is
the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind.
How do we study Cognition? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔We study Cognition through
experimental psychology, cognitive neuropsychology and neuroscience,
and computer modeling.
Describe the early work done by behaviorists which set the stage for the
Cognitive Revolution. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Tolman - proposed a cognitive map,
which is a conception within the rat's mind of the maze layout since rats
always rewarded at one location did better than rats always turning right
Skinner: argues children learn language through operant conditioning
,Chomsky: argues that children do not only learn language through imitation
and reinforcement, but that language is an inborn biologival paradigm
Describe the early work in Cognitive Psychology. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Donders
- measured how long it takes a person to make a decision using a reaction
time test with lights
Ebbinghaus - created the savings curve to show savings as a function of
retention interval by reading a list of nonsense syllables aloud to determine
the number of repititions necessary to repeat the list without errors
What is the "Cognitive Revolution" and how was it impacted by the advent
of the computer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Beginning in the 1950s, the "Cognitive
Revolution" was a shift from behavorist's stimulus-response relationships to
explain behavior in terms of the mind. It was impacted by the advent of the
computer because the computer allowed the information-processing
approach, which was a way to study the mind based on insights associated
with the digital computer and states that operation of the mind occurs in
stages.
, What are the main parts of a neuron? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cell body (soma) -
contains mechanisms to keep the cell alive
Dendrites - multiple branches reaching from the cell body, which receive
information from other neurons
Axon - tube filled with fluid that transmits electrical signal to other neurons
How is information transferred in the nervous system? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1)
Neurons receive a signal that is in either a chemical form or a physical
form.
2) Sodium diffuses down through the dendrites and cell body.
3) The electrical signal is activated and travels quickly down the axon to the
axon terminals
4) This causes the release of neurotransmitters at the synapse and the
process starts all over in the next neuron.
How is information represented in the nervous system? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Feature Detectors: neurons that respond best to a specific stimulus
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Questions and Answers | 100% Solved
What is Cognitive Psychology? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cognitive Psychology is
the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind.
How do we study Cognition? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔We study Cognition through
experimental psychology, cognitive neuropsychology and neuroscience,
and computer modeling.
Describe the early work done by behaviorists which set the stage for the
Cognitive Revolution. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Tolman - proposed a cognitive map,
which is a conception within the rat's mind of the maze layout since rats
always rewarded at one location did better than rats always turning right
Skinner: argues children learn language through operant conditioning
,Chomsky: argues that children do not only learn language through imitation
and reinforcement, but that language is an inborn biologival paradigm
Describe the early work in Cognitive Psychology. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Donders
- measured how long it takes a person to make a decision using a reaction
time test with lights
Ebbinghaus - created the savings curve to show savings as a function of
retention interval by reading a list of nonsense syllables aloud to determine
the number of repititions necessary to repeat the list without errors
What is the "Cognitive Revolution" and how was it impacted by the advent
of the computer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Beginning in the 1950s, the "Cognitive
Revolution" was a shift from behavorist's stimulus-response relationships to
explain behavior in terms of the mind. It was impacted by the advent of the
computer because the computer allowed the information-processing
approach, which was a way to study the mind based on insights associated
with the digital computer and states that operation of the mind occurs in
stages.
, What are the main parts of a neuron? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cell body (soma) -
contains mechanisms to keep the cell alive
Dendrites - multiple branches reaching from the cell body, which receive
information from other neurons
Axon - tube filled with fluid that transmits electrical signal to other neurons
How is information transferred in the nervous system? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1)
Neurons receive a signal that is in either a chemical form or a physical
form.
2) Sodium diffuses down through the dendrites and cell body.
3) The electrical signal is activated and travels quickly down the axon to the
axon terminals
4) This causes the release of neurotransmitters at the synapse and the
process starts all over in the next neuron.
How is information represented in the nervous system? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Feature Detectors: neurons that respond best to a specific stimulus
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
