Cognitive Psychology

In cognitive psychology, what do researchers study to understand how individuals make sense of their environment?

• Physical surroundings

• Emotional reactions

• Internal processes

• Motor skills

Established the first psychology laboratory at a German University.

• B.F. Skinner

• Noam Chomsky

• Ulric Neisser

• Wilhelm Wundt

He coined the term cognitive psychology for the topics you are studying in this course.

• B.F. Skinner

• Noam Chomsky

• Ulric Neisser

• Wilhelm Wundt

What analogy is used to describe the brain in the context of the development of Cognitive Psychology?

• Biological computer

• Mechanical engine

• Social network

• Chemical laboratory

What did Ulric Neisser emphasize about cognitive psychology?

• It is an isolated field.

• It is connected to other fields such as social psychology and biology.

• It focuses only on language.

• It disregards philosophy and the law.

What does the Information Processing Approach consider the mind to be?

• Emotional responder

• Problem solver

• Information processor

• Social communicator

What is the focus of Cognitive Psychology?

• External behaviors only

• Internal processes in making sense of the environment

• Social interactions only

• Emotional responses only

How did Wilhelm Wundt contribute to the development of psychology?

• By criticizing behaviorism

• By establishing the first psychology laboratory

• By developing artificial intelligence

• By proposing conditioning processes

_______________involves programming computers to model or mimic human cognitive functioning.

• Computational modelling

• Artificial intelligence

Information Processing Approach sees the mind as a?

• information processor

• hardware

• biological computer