TEST BANK Gabriel A. Radvansky University of Notre Dame
COGNITION 6th EDITION
Gabriel A. Radvansky University of Notre Dame
Mark H. Ashcraft
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Cognition, 6th ed.
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Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction Multiple Choice Questions 1.
The student of mental activity and thinking, broadly conceived, is called __________. a. cognitive science b. mind science c. cognitive studies d. mind studies
Page: 2 Type: conceptual Answer: a 2.
When did the cognitive revolution occur? a. early 1970s b. late 1950s c. late 1850s d. mid-1940s
Page: 2 Type: factual Answer: b 3.
Memory does NOT involve __________. a. a mental storage system b. acquiring information c. complex decision making d. mental processes
Page: 6 Type: conceptual Answer: c 4.
The mental process of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval is __________. a. cognition b. memory c. planning d. forecasting
Page: 6 Type: conceptual Answer: b 5.
Cognition does NOT involve __________. a. reflexes b. mental activities c. perceiving d. understanding
Page: 6 Type: conceptual Answer: a
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The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and understanding is __________. a. operations b. mentalism c. cognition d. computational neuroscience
Page: 6 Type: conceptual Answer: c 7.
People first began wondering about how the mind worked __________. a. after the cognitive revolution b. after Aristotle c. after Descartes d. before any of these people or events
Page: 7 Type: conceptual Answer: d 8.
Reductionism is __________. a. the method in which observers are carefully trained to report on inner sensations and experiences b. the building blocks underlying the structure of the brain c. the branch of experimental psychology that deals with human participants as they learn verbal materials, e.g., items or stimuli composed of letters and/or words d. attempting to understand a complex event by breaking the event down into its components
Page: 7 Type: conceptual Answer: d 9.
Ecological validity means __________. a. the amount of experimental control the experimenter has over the important manipulations b. acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval c. attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components d. representative of the real world
Page: 7 Type: conceptual Answer: d 10. If we hear a complaint that experimental psychology research lacks ecological validity, the person is complaining that __________. a. the research is not representative of real-world situations b. the research lacks sufficient precision c. the research lacks an appropriate comparison group d. we are attempting to understand complex phenomena by breaking them down into their components Page: 7 Type: applied Answer: a 11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it __________. a. is pragmatic b. acquires an air of confidence c. has ecological validity d. no longer is basic science Page: 7 Type: conceptual Answer: c
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12. A person trying to understand complex events by breaking them down into their components is using __________. a. fragmentation b. reductionism c. a parsing approach d. distillation Page: 7 Type: applied Answer: b 13. Who said, “I think, therefore I am”? a. Rene Descartes b. William James c. Aristotle d. Immanuel Kant Page: 7 Type: factual Answer: a 14. Empirical observations are those that __________. a. rely on observation, experimentation, or measurement b. characterize an entire set of research data c. are conducted in a field setting outside the laboratory d. compare people of different ages at a given moment in time Page: 9 Type: conceptual Answer: a 15. The philosophy that observation is to be the basis for much of science is __________. a. empiricism b. rationalism c. structuralism d. functionalism Page: 9 Type: conceptual Answer: a 16. Which of the following is NOT true? a. Wundt established the first psychological laboratory. b. Wundt’s student Titchner advocated the approach known as structuralism. c. Wundt believed strongly that the proper topic for psychology was “conscious processes and immediate experience.” d. Wundt advocated the approach known as functionalism. Page: 9 Type: factual Answer: d 17. Who is credited with being the first experimental psychologist? a. Wilhelm Wundt b. William James c. Edward Titchner d. John Watson Page: 9 Type: factual Answer: a
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Cognition, 6th ed.
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18. Radical empiricists believe that the mind starts out as a __________. a. cogito blanco b. tabula rasa c. scientia est potestas d. semper fideles Page: 9 Type: conceptual Answer: b 19. Many of the topics of Wundt’s research would fall under what we now label as ________ psychology. a. clinical b. counseling c. industrial/organizational d. cognitive Page: 9 Type: conceptual Answer: d 20. Titchener is most strongly associated with __________. a. structuralism b. functionalism c. the cognitive revolution d. Gestalt psychology Page: 10 Type: factual Answer: a 21. Hermann Ebbinghaus was the first person to systematically study __________. a. perception b. attention c. problem solving d. memory Page: 10 Type: factual Answer: d 22. Edward Titchener believed __________. a. that nothing worthwhile would come of studying mental processes b. that mental illness, educational applications, and social psychology were “impure” because they could not be studied using introspection c. that the appropriate goal for psychology was the objective assessment of association formation d. that the functions of consciousness, rather than its structure, were of interest Page: 10 Type: conceptual Answer: b 23. Which is true of Ebbinghaus? a. He was interested in memory. b. He was interested in perception. c. He was interested in reasoning. d. He was interested in studying introspection. Page: 10 Type: factual Answer: a
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