Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology

What is cognitive psychology?

• refers to all processes by which sensory input is transformed, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used.

• the study of the physical operations that support people's movement and use of boyd-parts.

• the study of interaction among people and communities, organization-non-organizational

• the study of the mental operations that support people's acquisition and use of knowledge.

Noam Chomsky argues that the mind processes information as to what?

• Mental images

• Subconscious impulses

• Visual cues

• Computational formulas

Which of these descriptions most accurately relates to the traditional role cognitive psychologists typically play in psychology?

• Studying in the ways cognitive processes change throughout the lifespan.

• Studying mental processes and how they relate to perception, attention, and decision making.

• Studying the mental processes involved in thinking about others and their social interactions

• Studying the association between mental processing and brain activity.

Which of the following are studied by cognitive psychologists?

• Attention

• Memory

• Perception

• Thoughts

• Defence mechanisms

I developed tests to assess mental abilities and concentrated on other mental abilities such as attention and memory other than academic

• Sigmund Freud

• BF Skinner

• Alfred Binet

• Jean Piaget

To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of: 

• the availability heuristic.
• functional fixedness.
• an algorithm.
• the representativeness heuristic.

A teacher asks students to think of as many uses for a brick as possible. By listing 50 uses, most of which the class finds new and unusual, Susan is displaying

• Computational learning
• Paired-associate learning
• Hypothetical thinking
• Divergent thinking

On a fishing trip, Ed realizes that he has mistakenly packed the sewing box instead of the tackle box. He wants to fish but returns home because he does not have any lines or hooks. Ed’s failure to realize that sewing thread can be used as fishing line and that a bent needle can be used as a hook is an example of

• Cognitive accommodation
• Backward masking
• Functional fixedness
• Proactive interference

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

According to the serial position effect, you will remember more: 

• items at the beginning and end of a list, than in the middle.
• nitems in the middle of a list, than at the beginning and end.
• vocabulary words if you process them visually.
• nvocabulary words if you process them acoustically.