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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
, 6. 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
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
, 6. 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
