WorksheetsIntro to Cognitive Psychology: Quiz 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
This is defined as mental functions that occur in the brain such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology
Cognition
Schema
None of the choices
This is the study of mental processes including determining the characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates.
Cognitive psychology
Cognition
Schema
None of the choices
This influential figure in cognitive psychology emphasized the importance of scientific evidence obtained by careful observation and experimentation.
Wilhelm Wundt
Mary Whiton Calkins
William James
Aristotle
When flashed with many letters on the screen and asked to remember the letters, you can only recall most of the letters from the final slide. This phenomenon is called:
Schema
Recency effect
Three-stage theory of humor
Gestalt
When shown a circle with two lines inside, you interpreted it as a face. This is a common demonstration of ____________ at work.
Cognitive Psychology
Behaviorism
Gestalt Psychology
Psycholinguistics
What is most likely to be true about the cognitive revolution?
There was a paradigm shift from behaviorist approach to a holistic, cognitive approach.
New developments in linguistics increased psychologists’ satisfaction with behaviorism.
Behaviorism did not contribute to contemporary research and therapeutic methods.
Linguist Noam Chomsky fought for behaviorism as a useful tool to understand language.
He is considered the father of cognitive psychology.
Ulric Neisser
Frederic Bartlett
Noam Chomsky
Max Weirtheimer
What is most likely to be FALSE about Gestalt psychology?
Gestalt psychologists recognized the importance of behaviorism in furthering cognitive psychology as a field.
Gestalt psychology focuses on the fact that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
This was founded by Max Weirtheimer, with co-founders Wolfgang Kohler and Kurt Koffka.
Gestalt psychologists emphasized the importance of insight in problem solving.
This influential figure in cognitive psychology emphasized the importance of scientific evidence obtained by careful observation and experimentation.
Wilhelm Wundt
Mary Whiton Calkins
William James
Aristotle
What is most likely to be TRUE about cognitive psychology?
Cognitive psychology focuses exclusively on the functions of an extraordinary mind.
It is limited in applications.
Cognitive psychology’s influence borders only around neuroscience and cognitive science.
By studying cognitive psychology, we want to make sense of how humans think by observing people perform various cognitive tasks.
