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Why do cognitive psychologists study language processes?
How did developments in chemistry, biology, and physics affect cognitive psychology?
What is the name for an intensive scientific study of a single person...
1). Why do cognitive psychologists study language processes?
Ans: Observing the ways people communicate provides insights into cognitive
processes.
2). How did developments in chemistry, biology, and physics affect cognitive psychology?
Ans: Cognitive psychologists began to apply scientific methods from those fields to
their field.
3). What is the name for an intensive scientific study of a single person or institution?
Ans: case study
4). You want to design a study that measures the speed of thought in human research
subjects. which of these approaches would be most sensible?
Ans: Create tasks that will allow you to measure subjects' response time and overall
accuracy.
5). Your professor asks you to create a study that includes priming. which of these studies
fulfills that criterion?
Ans: showing subjects the color red before asking them to identify the word
"strawberry"
6). In the mid-1900s, the most popular introspective method of cognitive psychology was
behaviorism.true or false
Ans: False
7). According to representationalists, the human mind is similar to computers in the way it
stores information.
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, Ans: True
8). A cognitive psychology study that does not allow for systematic observation is probably
flawed. true or false
Ans: True
9). You are a researcher at a cosmetics company. you design a study that measures how
people react to an advertisement for lipstick. the test subjects' reactions are the
dependent variable, and the amount of red that you include in the advertisement is the
independent variable.true or false
Ans: True
10). Stereotypical reactions and response times are two of the most important bases of mental
chronometry. true or false
Ans: False
11). Which psychologist extensively tested his own memory to develop theories of cognition?
Ans: Ebbinghaus
12). The study of cognition fell out of favor because of the rise in popularity of ______.
Ans: behaviorism
13). Donders' main reason for doing his choice reaction time experiment was to study _______.
Ans: decision making
14). The first experiments in cognitive psychology were based on the idea that mental
responses can be _______.
Ans: inferred from the participant's behavior.
15). According to ebbinghaus' forgetting curve, forgetting is a function of ______.
Ans: Elapsed time
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, 16). Which of the following methods was used in the psychology laboratory established by
wilhelm wundt?
Ans: analytic introspection
17). John watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of ________.
Ans: observable behavior
18). Which of the following does not characterize the information processing (ip) approach to
the study of cognition?
Ans: IP supports the principle of behaviorism that behavior is a stimulus-response
relationship
19). Your text describes the occurrence of a "cognitive revolution" during which dramatic
changes took place in the way psychology was studied. this so-called "revolution" occurred
parallel to (and, in part, because of) the introduction of ______.
Ans: computers
20). Donald broadbent was the first person to develop which of the following?
Ans: A flow diagram depicting the mind as processing information in a sequence of
stages
21). Using a computer or information-processing model would most accurately depict which
approach to cognition?
Ans: representationist
22). Dr. martinez performed a study in which participants in one group studied for an exam by
acting out the principles in their textbook, and the other group studied by reading the
chapters over and over. this study most closely illustrates the ______.
Ans: embodied cognition approach
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