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Instructor Resource McBride, Cognitive Psychology 2e SAGE Publishing, 2018

Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

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Multiple Choice

• We use ______ to accomplish everyday tasks.
• neuroscience
• cognition
• correlation
• priming

Ans: B

Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which of these terms refers specifically to the ability to focus on one stimulus

among the many that are in our environment?

• sensory perception
• attentional process
• memory retrieval
• language process

Ans: B

Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Cognitive psychologists who focus on the role of consciousness in human

thought processes want to know how much ______ we have in our behaviors.

• repetitiveness
• social dysfunction
• ability
• conscious choice

Ans: D

Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?

Difficulty Level: Easy

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Instructor Resource McBride, Cognitive Psychology 2e SAGE Publishing, 2018

• Cognitive psychology is broad, and thus overlaps with many other fields

including neuroscience, philosophy, and ______.

• chemistry
• astronomy
• linguistics
• robotics

Ans: C

Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Cognitive Psychology?

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Ancient scholars in which field asked the first questions related to cognitive

psychology?

• behaviorism
• sociology
• biology
• philosophy

Ans: D

Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Aristotle suggested that a human's memory is like a message carved into wax.

What did he mean by this?

• Memories are difficult to form, like trying to write on a wax tablet with a stick.
• Memories can be surprising, like seeing messages carved into wax.
• Like messages carved into a tablet, our memories endure for our entire lives.
• Like messages on a heated wax tablet, our memories can blur or disappear.

Ans: D

Learning Objective: 1-1: What is cognitive psychology? How did it develop as a field?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Who was one of the first psychologists to study cognition?
• John Watson
• Wilhelm Wundt
• B. F. Skinner
• Sigmund Freud

Ans: B 3 / 4

Instructor Resource McBride, Cognitive Psychology 2e SAGE Publishing, 2018 Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which psychologist extensively tested his own memory to develop theories of

cognition?

• Aristotle
• Wundt
• Ebbinghaus
• Chomsky

Ans: C

Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology

Difficulty Level: Easy

• The study of cognition fell out of favor because of the rise in popularity of

______.

• philosophy
• neuroscience
• behaviorism
• sociology

Ans: C

Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology

Difficulty Level: Easy

• A belief in cognitive psychology reemerged following which event?
• a series of experiments showing how learning is affected by behavioral

conditioning

• John Watson’s experimentation on Little Albert
• Sigmund Freud’s discussion of the psychosexual stages of development
• the development of information processing approaches to study the mind and

behavior

Ans: D

Learning Objective: 1-2: How have psychologists approached the study of cognition?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Development of Cognitive Psychology

Difficulty Level: Easy

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