This document contains a cognitive psychology model examination with final exam review questions and answers. It tests knowledge on various cognitive psychology topics
COGNITIVE FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Rene Descartes' influence on psychology - Thinking as essence of humans
The Mind and body exist and interact. What is the Mind-Body problem? - The Mind-
body problem is question of how can two entities interact when by their nature they
cannot interact
What is Materialism? - The physical realm is real, mental phenomena are merely just
functions of the brain
*The body is a MACHINE
Derived vs. Innate ideas - Derived: These are ideas that are due to EXPERIENCE
Innate: There ideas are NOT due to experience but they are BUILT INTO US
What were the British empiricists views of derived and innate ideas? - All ideas are
DERIVED ideas because knowledge is obtained through the SENSES
Innate ideas DO NOT EXIST
What is Association? - Connecting ideas together
These ideas occur in time or space
How did Immanuel Kant's views on innate ideas differ from that of British empiricists? -
Kant believes that we DO have BUILT IN knowledge (innate ideas).
EX: WE are SET to learn language
We are SET to develop certain phobias
We are SET to make an orderly story of our lives
These are all innate ideas that we already have in our brain when we are born.
What was Immanuel Kant's greatest influence on modern psychology? - We cause
order on the world
What are categories? - Forms by which the mind structures experience, therefore, those
ideas are built into us
ex: Cause & effect
Wilhelm Wundt's influence on modern psychology - Wundt brought philosophy and
physiology together
, He studied IMMEDIATE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE
What is immediate conscious experience? Who studied this in great detail? - The
conscious process we have when stimuli are presented
ex. The greeness of green paper
The pitch of a tine
Studied in great detail but Wilhelm Wundt
What is introspection? - Analyzing one's own sensations and reporting them as
objectively as possible. In other words, it is an experimental self-observation
Wundt studied this by measuring reaction times and word associations and designed a
controlled experimental procedure for describing these sensations
How is American Functionalism connecting with Applied Psychology and
Evolution/Natural selection? - Applied Psychology:
Education
Job Testing
Advertising
Evolution and Natural Selection:
Survival value of traits
Random variation and selecting
What is Behaviorism? - Behaviorism is the focus of observable, objective, and
measurable aspects of behavior
How did Behaviorism criticize introspection? - Paying attention to thinking may
CHANGE thinking
Introspection RELIES on memory and memory can be faulty
WE may not know what is going on in our own mind
We CANNOT use the concept of introspection on infants, animals mainly because they
cannot talk. We cannot use it on people with mental problems such as with
Schizophrenia because they are not in their own minds
There are different results with different researchers
And when researchers obtain results, to whom do the results generalize to?
What was Behaviorism's contribution to psychology - It is extremely rigor in research
What are Operational definitions? - An operation definition is defining a concept by the
way that it is measured
EX: Memory, this can be measured by multiple choice tests and essay tests
EX: Scholastic ability, this concept can be measured by ACT scores, SAT scores,
Grades, and Teacher ratings
What was Alan Turing's contribution to modern psychology? - Turin laid the foundation
for the MODERN DIGITAL COMPUTER
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