Assessment: Intro to Cog Psych Flashcards
While Tariq takes the bus home, he is thinking about how to resolve a difficult issue at work. This example particularly highlights the value of ___.
working to solve a problem
The statement “If you put your mind to it, I’m sure you can solve that maths problem” highlights how the mind can be used ___.
to make decisions or consider possibilities
Hugh and Nicola are doing a study in psychology. Hugh is asked to push a button as soon as he sees a red light whereas Nicola is asked to push a red button if she sees a red light and a green button if she sees a green light. From the information, ___ appear to be involved in a task measuring choice reaction time.
only Nicola
Which one of these early pioneers in cognitive psychology was the first to undertake quantitative measurements of mental processes?
Ebbinghaus
Ebbinghaus was the first to take quantitative measurements of mental processes such as memory.
__ founded behaviourism which ___ the study of inner mental processes.
John Watson, rejected
An animal might learn the general conception of a maze through the use of ___.
cognitive map
Noam Chomsky argued that language development was primarily determined by ___.
inborn biological processes
The cognitive revolution, which marked a rebirth of the study of the mind, began in the ___.
1950s
The predominant theme of the information-processing approach holds that the operation of the mind occurs ___.
in a number of stages
In a flow diagram of the mind, messages first enter a(n) ___.
fitler
In a classic paper from the 1950s, George Miller argued that the information-processing of the mind is ___.
limited to about seven items
The structural model refers to representations of ___.
representations of physical structures.
Of the following brain structures, the one that is LEAST associated with the pain matrix is the ___.
medulla
hippocampus is associated with the pain matrix
The process model refers to representations of ___.
processes involved in cognitive mechanisms
If you are thinking about experiences about a previous vacation, then you are most likely making use of ___ memories.
episodic
According to the author of your text, the statement “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” represents which aspect of the mind?
Its importance, or value.
In the context of the history of the study of mind, which of the following researchers focussed on how behaviour is controlled by the environment (and not the mind)?
Skinner
Which psychologist presented a paper entitled “The Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two?”
George Miller
Hasnain is interested in discovering the fundamental units of mind which, when put together, form the basis for our experiences. Which approach in psychology best characterises this?
Structuralisim
Tolman:
- showed that something other than simple stimulus-response associations explained the performance of rats in his studies.
- demonstrated that rats were forming a “cognitive map” of the mazes they were running.
- .was outside the mainstream of behaviourism.
Which of the following technological advances greatly influenced the advent of cognitive psychology?
the digital computer
The “cognitive revolution” took a while to come to the fore because ___.
behaviourism was the dominant school of thought
The book describes an example of a line of cognitive research leading from one conclusion to the next. After several studies on the matter, what was concluded about the relationship between working memory (WM) and pressure (P)?
Beilock and Carr (2005) showed that performance is equal under high P for those with high WM and those with low WM.
What is the difference between a process model and a structural model?
Structural models represent a physical structure whereas process models represent processes.
Pragnya is building a model which describes different events occurring in time when a person takes a bicycle from a starting position to a comfortable “cruising” speed. What kind of model would best characterize this?
Process
