Psychology

Ancient scholars in which field asked the first questions related to cognitive psychology?

• behaviorism
• sociology
• biology
• philosophy

Which psychologist extensively tested his own memory to develop theories of cognition?

• Aristotle
• Wundt
• Ebbinghaus
• Chomsky

As a graduate student in psychology, you design a study on how lawbreakers who get away with their crimes react to news of others' crimes. Your graduate adviser rejects your study because it is not ______.In other words, it cannot be evaluated through observation

• negotiable
• testable
• accurate
• parsimonious

Wilhelm Wundt and his students used a technique known as _________ to study mental states

• behaviorism
• intensity measurement
• componentialism
• Introspection

Cognitive psychology is broad, and thus overlaps with many other fields including neuroscience, philosophy, and ______.

• chemistry
• astronomy
• linguistics
• robotics

If you think of cognitive processing as a type of information processing, then the brain is the ______ and the cognitive processes themselves are the ______.

• hardware; software
• response; stimulus
• software; hardware
• stimulus; response

What kind of research methodology focuses on intensive analyses of a single individual?

• surveys
• case studies
• correlational studies
• naturalistic observations

Which “school” of psychology emphasized objectivity of research methods and measurement?

• the gestalt school
• functionalism
• structuralism
• behaviorism

Using a computer or information processing model would most accurately depict which approach to cognition?

• embodied cognition
• representationalist
• linguistic
• behaviorist

Which of the following allows us to support claims about cause-and-effect relationships?

• experiment
• introspection
• naturalistic observation
• controlled observation