Week 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Question 1

IDENTIFICATION:

The branch of Psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind.

Answer 1

Cognitive Psychology

Question 2

IDENTIFICATION:

Creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking and reasoning.

Answer 2

The Mind

Question 3

IDENTIFICATION:

Dutch physiologist who did one of the 1st Cognitive Psychology Experiment

Answer 3

Franciscus Donders

Question 4

IDENTIFICATION:

How long does it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus

Answer 4

Reaction Time

Question 5

IDENTIFICATION: Kind of Reaction Time

Donders asks his participants to push a button as rapidly as possible when they saw a light go on.

Answer 5

Simple Reaction Time

Question 6

IDENTIFICATION: Kind of Reaction Time

Donders used two lights and asked his participants to push the left button (J Key) when they saw the left light go on, and the right button (K key) when they saw the right light go on.

Answer 6

Choice Reaction Time

Question 7

IDENTIFICATION:

He measures REACTION TIME

Answer 7

Franciscus Donders

Question 8

TRUE OR FALSE:

Mental responses were directly measured but the behavior was inferred from the reaction time

Answer 8

FALSE; Mental Responses were not directly measured**

Question 9

IDENTIFICATION:

He is a German physiologist & psychologist who founded the 1st laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany

Answer 9

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 10

IDENTIFICATION:

The overall experience which is determined by combining basic elements of experience which were called sensations.

Answer 10

Structuralism

Question 11

Periodic table of the mind that includes all basic sensations involved in creating complex experiences using (___________)

Answer 11

Analytic Introspection

Question 12

IDENTIFICATION:

Technique in which trained participants described their sensations, feelings, and thought processes in response to stimuli

Answer 12

Analytic Introspection

Question 13

TRUE OR FALSE:

Wundt emphasized the pivotal role of experiments in gaining knowledge about the human mind

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

IDENTIFICATION:

German psychologist who measures the properties of the mind (memory and forgetting)

Answer 14

Herman Ebbinghaus

Question 15

IDENTIFICATION:

American Psychologist; author of the First Psychology Textbook: The Principles of Psychology

Answer 15

William James

Question 16

IDENTIFICATION:

American Psychologist who proposed BEHAVIORISM

Answer 16

John B. Watson

Question 17

IDENTIFICATION:

Provided another tool in studying the stimulus and response which is OPERANT CONDITIONING.

Answer 17

B.F. Skinner

Question 18

IDENTIFICATION:

Focuses on how behavior is strengthened by the presentation of positive reinforcers or negative reinforcers.

Answer 18

Operant Conditioning

Question 19

IDENTIFICATION:

used rat maze that eventually led to the discovery of Latent Learning and Cognitive Maps

Answer 19

Edward Tolman