Fall 2023 Exam 1 Review - Psychology 240

Which psychologist was not associated with behaviorism?

• Skinner

• Pavlov

• Watson

• Wundt

How do cognitivists approach the "black box problem"?

• We can infer what happens in the mind

• We can make no inferences about what happens in the mind

• We can definitively test what happens in the mind

• The mind doesn't exist

Constructivists believe that ____ influence perceptual representations

• Top-down processes

• Bottom-up processes

• Top-down and bottom-up processes

Behaviorism ignored the existence of the mind

• True

• False

Which part of a neuron receives information from a synapse?

• Cell body

• Dendrites

• Axon

Which part of the neuron integrates information and supplies the cell?

• Dendrites

• Cell body

• Synapses

• Axon

Some neurons respond best to specific types of stimuli

• True

• False

What is the correct order by which a message is transmitted through a neuron?

• Dendrite, Axon, Cell Body, Synapse

• Cell Body, Dendrite, Axon, Synapse

• Synapse, Axon, Cell Body, Dendrite

• Dendrite, Cell Body, Axon, Synapse

In ___ coding, objects are represented by patterns of activation from large groups of firing neurons

• sparse

• population

• specificity

Which of the following is the limbic system MOST associated with?

• Planning

• Motor skills

• Vision

• Emotion