PSYC 230 Test 1 2025/2026 Exam
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What is cog psyc? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔branch of psych concerned with the
scientific study of the mind
cognition refers to - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the mental processes such as
perception, attention, and memory
FC Donders - 🧠 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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔established first scientific psych lab,
developed structuralist approach, used analytic introspection
,Structuralism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔overall experience is determined by
combining basic elements of experience called sensations
analytic introspection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔participants trained to describe
stimuli and thought processes in response to stimuli
Ebbinghaus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔memory and forgetting - used himself as a
subject for studying memory of nonsense syllables
William James - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔early american psychologist who taught
the first psych course at harvard
John Watson - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔proposed behaviorism - said analytic
introspection had variable results and was difficult to verify results.
Behaviorism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Proposed by john watson, eliminate the mind
as a topic of study, instead, study directly observable behavior
Watson and Rayner - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Little albert experiment - 9 month old
became frightened of rat paired with loud noise, associated the two.
Behaviorism approach was dominant from the - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1940s
through the 1960s
, Tolman - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔trained rats to find food in a four armed maze.
Idea of cognitive map within the rats mind.
Skinner vs chomsky - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔verbal behavior, argued children
learn language through operant conditioning. Chomsky argued that it is not
only due to these factors.
Cognitive revolution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔around 1954, shift from behaviorists
stimulus-response and shifted to an information processing approach,
alongside introduction of the computer
Information processing approach - 🧠 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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔sensory memory less than 1 second,
short term memory(a few seconds ago, limited capacity), long duration high
capacity
Tulving - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔divided long term memory into three components
(episodic, semantic, and procedural memory)
Main parts of a nueron - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔cell body/soma, axon, dendrites
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers |
Latest Update
What is cog psyc? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔branch of psych concerned with the
scientific study of the mind
cognition refers to - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the mental processes such as
perception, attention, and memory
FC Donders - 🧠 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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔established first scientific psych lab,
developed structuralist approach, used analytic introspection
,Structuralism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔overall experience is determined by
combining basic elements of experience called sensations
analytic introspection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔participants trained to describe
stimuli and thought processes in response to stimuli
Ebbinghaus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔memory and forgetting - used himself as a
subject for studying memory of nonsense syllables
William James - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔early american psychologist who taught
the first psych course at harvard
John Watson - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔proposed behaviorism - said analytic
introspection had variable results and was difficult to verify results.
Behaviorism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Proposed by john watson, eliminate the mind
as a topic of study, instead, study directly observable behavior
Watson and Rayner - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Little albert experiment - 9 month old
became frightened of rat paired with loud noise, associated the two.
Behaviorism approach was dominant from the - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1940s
through the 1960s
, Tolman - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔trained rats to find food in a four armed maze.
Idea of cognitive map within the rats mind.
Skinner vs chomsky - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔verbal behavior, argued children
learn language through operant conditioning. Chomsky argued that it is not
only due to these factors.
Cognitive revolution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔around 1954, shift from behaviorists
stimulus-response and shifted to an information processing approach,
alongside introduction of the computer
Information processing approach - 🧠 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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔sensory memory less than 1 second,
short term memory(a few seconds ago, limited capacity), long duration high
capacity
Tulving - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔divided long term memory into three components
(episodic, semantic, and procedural memory)
Main parts of a nueron - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔cell body/soma, axon, dendrites
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