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1. The student of mental activity and thinking, broadly conceived, is called T T T .
a. cognitive science
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b. mind science
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c. cognitive T


d. mind studies T


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Type: conceptual
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Answer: a T




2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
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a. early 1970s T


b. late 1950s T


c. late 1850s T


d. mid-1940s
Page: 2
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Type: factual
T T


Answer: b T




3. Memory does NOT involve
T T T .
a. a mental storage system
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b. acquiring information T


c. complex decision making T T


d. mental processes T


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Type: conceptual
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Answer: c T




4. The mental process of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval is
T T T T T T T T T T T .
a. cognition
b. memory
c. planning
d. forecasting
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: b T




5. Cognition does NOT involveT T T .
a. reflexes
b. mental activities T


c. perceiving
d. understanding
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Answer: a T




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6. The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and
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a. operations
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: cT




7. People first began wondering about how the mind worked
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a. after the cognitive revolution T T T


b. after Aristotle T


c. after Descartes T


d. before any of these people or events T T T T T T


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Type: conceptual
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Answer: dT




8. Reductionism is . T


a. the method in which observers are carefully trained to report on inner sensations and experiences
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b. the building blocks underlying the structure of the brain
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c. the branch of experimental psychology that deals with human participants as they learn verbal materials,
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e.g., items or stimuli composed of letters and/or words
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d. attempting to understand a complex event by breaking the event down into its components
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: dT




9. Ecological validity means . T T


a. the amount of experimental control the experimenter has over the important manipulations
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b. acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval T T T T T T


c. attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components
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d. representative of the real world T T T T


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Type: conceptual
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Answer: dT




10. If we hear a complaint that experimental psychology research lacks ecological validity, the person is
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complaining that . T


a. the research is not representative of real-world situations T T T T T T T


b. the research lacks sufficient precision T T T T


c. the research lacks an appropriate comparison group T T T T T T


d. we are attempting to understand complex phenomena by breaking them downinto their components
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Type: applied
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Answer: aT




11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it
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a. is pragmatic T


b. acquires an air of confidence T T T T


c. has ecological validity T T


d. no longer is basic science T T T T


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12. A person trying to understand complex events by breaking them down into their components is using
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c. a parsing approach
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d. distillation
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Type: applied
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Answer: b T




13. Who said, “I think, therefore I am”?
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a. Rene Descartes T


b. William James T


c. Aristotle
d. Immanuel Kant T


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Type: factual
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Answer: a T




14. Empirical observations are those that T . T T T


a. rely on observation, experimentation, or measurement
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b. characterize an entire set of research data T T T T T T


c. are conducted in a field setting outside the laboratory
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d. compare people of different ages at a given moment in time
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: a T




15. The philosophy that observation is to be the basis for much of science is
T T T T T T T T T T T T T .
a. empiricism
b. rationalism
c. structuralism
d. functionalism
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: a T




16. Which of the following is NOT true?
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a. Wundt established the first psychological laboratory.
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b. Wundt’s student Titchner advocated the approach known as structuralism.
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c. Wundt believed strongly that the proper topic for psychology was “conscious processes and immediate
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experience.”
d. Wundt advocated the approach known as functionalism.
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Type: factual
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Answer: d T




17. Who is credited with being the first experimental psychologist?
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a. Wilhelm Wundt T


b. William James T


c. Edward Titchner T


d. John Watson T T


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18. Radical empiricists believe that the mind starts out as a
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c. scientia est potestas T T


d. semper fideles T T


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Answer: bT




19. Many of the topics of Wundt’s research would fall under what we now label as
T T T T T T T T T T T T T T psychology.
a. clinical
b. counseling
c. industrial/organizational
d. cognitive T


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Type: conceptual
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Answer: dT




20. Titchener is most strongly associated with
T T T T T .
a. structuralism
b. functionalism
c. the cognitive revolution
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d. Gestalt psychology T T


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Type: factual
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Answer: aT




21. Hermann Ebbinghaus was the first person to systematically study
T T T T T T T T .
a. perception
b. attention
c. problem solving T


d. memory T


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Type: factual
T T


Answer: dT




22. Edward Titchener believed
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a. that nothing worthwhile would come of studying mental processes
T T T T T T T T


b. that mental illness, educational applications, and social psychology were “impure” because they could
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not be studied using introspection
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c. that the appropriate goal for psychology was the objective assessment of association formation
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d. that the functions of consciousness, rather than its structure, were of interest
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: bT




23. Which is true of Ebbinghaus?
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a. He was interested in memory.
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b. He was interested in perception.
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c. He was interested in reasoning.
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d. He was interested in studying introspection.
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