Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive
Psychology
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. We use ______ to accomplish everyday tasks.
a. neuroscience
b. cognition
c. correlation
d. priming
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Which of these terms refers specifically to the ability to focus on one stimulus among the
many that are in our environment?
a. sensory perception
b. attentional process
c. memory retrieval
d. language process
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
,Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Cognitive psychologists who focus on the role of consciousness in human thought
processes want to know how much ______ we have in our behaviors.
a. repetitiveness
b. social dysfunction
c. ability
d. conscious choice
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Cognitive psychology is broad, and thus overlaps with many other fields including
neuroscience, philosophy, and ______.
a. chemistry
b. astronomy
c. linguistics
d. robotics
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Difficulty Level: Easy
,5. Ancient scholars in which field asked the first questions related to cognitive psychology?
a. behaviorism
b. sociology
c. biology
d. philosophy
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Aristotle suggested that a human's memory is like a message carved into wax. What did
he mean by this?
a. Memories are difficult to form, like trying to write on a wax tablet with a stick.
b. Memories can be surprising, like seeing messages carved into wax.
c. Like messages carved into a tablet, our memories endure for our entire lives.
d. Like messages on a heated wax tablet, our memories can blur or disappear.
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Who was one of the first psychologists to study cognition?
a. John Watson
b. Wilhelm Wundt
, c. B. F. Skinner
d. Sigmund Freud
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Which psychologist extensively tested his own memory to develop theories of cognition?
a. Aristotle
b. Wundt
c. Ebbinghaus
d. Chomsky
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The study of cognition fell out of favor because of the rise in popularity of ______.
a. philosophy
b. neuroscience
c. behaviorism
d. sociology
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?
Psychology
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. We use ______ to accomplish everyday tasks.
a. neuroscience
b. cognition
c. correlation
d. priming
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Which of these terms refers specifically to the ability to focus on one stimulus among the
many that are in our environment?
a. sensory perception
b. attentional process
c. memory retrieval
d. language process
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
,Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Cognitive psychologists who focus on the role of consciousness in human thought
processes want to know how much ______ we have in our behaviors.
a. repetitiveness
b. social dysfunction
c. ability
d. conscious choice
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Cognitive psychology is broad, and thus overlaps with many other fields including
neuroscience, philosophy, and ______.
a. chemistry
b. astronomy
c. linguistics
d. robotics
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?
Difficulty Level: Easy
,5. Ancient scholars in which field asked the first questions related to cognitive psychology?
a. behaviorism
b. sociology
c. biology
d. philosophy
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Aristotle suggested that a human's memory is like a message carved into wax. What did
he mean by this?
a. Memories are difficult to form, like trying to write on a wax tablet with a stick.
b. Memories can be surprising, like seeing messages carved into wax.
c. Like messages carved into a tablet, our memories endure for our entire lives.
d. Like messages on a heated wax tablet, our memories can blur or disappear.
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Who was one of the first psychologists to study cognition?
a. John Watson
b. Wilhelm Wundt
, c. B. F. Skinner
d. Sigmund Freud
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Which psychologist extensively tested his own memory to develop theories of cognition?
a. Aristotle
b. Wundt
c. Ebbinghaus
d. Chomsky
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The study of cognition fell out of favor because of the rise in popularity of ______.
a. philosophy
b. neuroscience
c. behaviorism
d. sociology
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?
