CogPsyc_HistoryProcessModels

Which of the following is a cognitive psychologist not going to do as part of their profession or training?

• help car-makers design better dash boards for the driver

• do research at a university on whether humor helps memory

• conduct human-comptuer interaction studies

• administer or research cognitive behavioral therapy

Which of the following is true of most information processing models (aka process models) -- espeically earlier ones?

• Processing is serial, occuring in a set of steps through modular components, where one step must finish, before the next step can begin.

• Processing is parallel, with processing simultaneously occuring in all of the modular components of the model.

• Processing does not require mental representations.

• Most of these models describe memory, but do not describe things like decision processes.

In cognitive psychology, process models are used to represent:

• the connectionist paradigm of information processing

• the independent stages through which information processing proceeds

• the codependence among stages of information processing

• parallel distributive processing

What are two measures that cognitive psychologists frequently use as dependent variables or measures when making inferences about how the mind works?

• reaction time and error rates (i.e., accuracy)

• ERP and fMRI

• reaction time and self-report

• error rates and “think aloud” reports

One important difference between theoretical behaviorism and cognitive psychology is that cognitive psychology

• rejects the use of human participants

• insists on studying topics that can be directly and objectively observed

• emphasizes the evolutionary roots of human behavior

• argues that unobservable mental states can be scientifically studied

Which of the following topics is NOT commonly studied within cognitive psychology?

• dream content

• decision making

• attention

• memory

Recall the study by McNamara, Long, & Wike (1956) in which rats were exposed to a maze in one of two ways: the rats in one group ran the maze themselves, while the rats in the other group were pushed through the maze in carts. Which group(s) learned to make the correct choices in the maze?

• The rats who ran themselves learned to make the correct choice, but the rats in carts failed to learn it.

• The rats in carts learned to make the correct choice, but the rats who ran themselves failed to learn it.

• Neither group of rats learned to make the correct choice.

• Both groups of rats learned to make the correct choice.

There are three core assumptions made by cognitive psychologists when studying the mind. They are:

• that it is important to distinguish between performance and learning, that self-report is an accurate way of assessing mental processes, and that people are active information processors

• that mental processes exist, that they can be studied scientifically, and that people are accurate at self-reporting on their mental processes

• that mental processes exist, but people do not have conscious access much of these mental processes

• that mental processes exist, that they can be studied scientifically, and that humans are active information processors

With the emergence of cognitive psychology, we have discarded the basic learning principles established by behaviorists.

• True

• False