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Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin's (1968) model of memory, which was introduced a year after the publication of Neisser's book, described the flow of information in the memory system as progressing through three stages. Which memory holds incoming information for a fraction of a second and then passes most of this information to short-term memory?


A) Long-term memory
B) Sensory memory
C) Episodic memory
D) Semantic memory

E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

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In which year was positron emission tomography (PET) introduced and made it possible to see which areas of the human brain are activated during cognitive activity?


A) 1969
B) 1984
C) 1991
D) 1976

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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Which of the following does NOT characterize the information processing (IP) approach to the study of cognition?


A) IP depicts the mind as processing information in a sequence of stages.
B) IP emphasizes stimulus-response relationships in cognitive processes.
C) IP involves the use of computers as a metaphor to understand human cognition.
D) IP traces the sequence of mental operations involved in cognition.

E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

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Regarding children's language development, Noam Chomsky noted that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. From this, he concluded that language development is driven largely by


A) an inborn biological program.
B) cultural influences.
C) classical conditioning.
D) operant conditioning.

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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In Donders's research on human decision making, he found that it took ____________ to decide which of two buttons to push in response to a stimulus.


A) less than one second
B) between one and two seconds
C) two to five seconds
D) more than five seconds

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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Who proposed that children's language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement?


A) Noam Chomsky
B) John Watson
C) Keller Breland
D) B. F. Skinner

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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As a result of gaps in the behaviorist paradigm, the new cognitive paradigm began to emerge in which decade?


A) 1950s
B) 1930s
C) 1940s
D) 1920s

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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How is the term mind used in this statement: "When he talks about his encounter with aliens, it sounds like he is out of his mind"?


A) The mind as involved in memory
B) The mind as problem solver
C) The mind as a healthy mind being associated with normal functioning, a nonfunctioning mind with abnormal functioning.
D) The mind as valuable, something that should be used

E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany?


A) Erik Erikson
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Wilhelm Wundt
D) Ivan Pavlov

E) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

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Which of the following is NOT true of positron emission tomography (PET) ?


A) It replaced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) because it was less expensive.
B) It shows which areas of the human brain are activated during cognitive activity.
C) It provides a lower-resolution image than fMRI.
D) It involved injecting radioactive tracers into a person's bloodstream.

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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Which of the following is a criticism of analytic introspection?


A) It infers mental processes based on objective data.
B) It produces results that are too easy to verify.
C) It produces variable results from person to person.
D) It requires no training.

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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Explain how Donders's and Ebbinghaus's pioneering methods, though very different from each other, allowed for behavior to determine a property of the mind.

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Donders measured the reaction time which...

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Why can we consider Tolman one of the early cognitive psychologists?


A) Because he used behavior to infer mental processes
B) Because of his focus on measuring behavior
C) Because he focused on the stimulus-response connections in the rat's mind during his maze experiment
D) Because of his interest in operant conditioning

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Donald Broadbent was the first person to develop which of the following?


A) A flow diagram depicting the mind as processing information in a sequence of stages
B) A computer program for solving logic problems
C) An experimental procedure for studying the way people process information
D) The first textbook of cognitive psychology

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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According to Ebbinghaus's research on memory, savings is a function of


A) word familiarity.
B) sensory modality.
C) elapsed time.
D) reaction time.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Describe Atkinson and Shiffrin's model of memory and how it works. Also, describe Tulving's components of memory and give an example of each component.

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A technique in which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli is known as


A) structuralism.
B) analytic introspection.
C) sensations.
D) cognitive psychology.

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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The relationship between the ____________ is NOT measured directly by cognitive psychologists.


A) physiological response and the behavioral outcome
B) cognitive task and the behavioral outcome
C) cognitive task and the physiological response
D) cognitive task and the mental response

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Watson became dissatisfied with the method of analytic introspection in which context?


A) Behaviorism
B) Results were interpreted in terms of invisible inner mental processes
C) It produced same results from person to person
D) Results were easy to verify

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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Endel Tulving, one of the most prominent early memory researchers, proposed that long-term memory is subdivided into all of the following components EXCEPT


A) Short-term memory.
B) Procedural memory.
C) Episodic memory.
D) Semantic memory.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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