Chapter 3: Perception
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is NOT one of our sense organs?
A. Eyes
B. Skin
C. Nose
D. Stomach
Cognitive domain: Knowledge
Answer location: Sensory Systems: How Sensations Become Perceptions
Question type: MS
Ans: D
2. Which scenario is...
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Multiple Choice
1. We use ______ to accomplish everyday tasks.
A. common sense
B. cognition
C. memory
D. language
Cognitive domain: Knowledge
Answer location: What is Cognitive Psychology?
Question type: MS
Ans: B
2. Cognitive psychology includes all of the following EXCEPT:
A. physical development
B. perception
C. memory
D. attention
Cognitive domain: Comprehension
Answer location: What is Cognitive Psychology?
Question type: MS
Ans: A
3. Cognitive psychology is broad, and thus overlaps with many other fields including
neuroscience, philosophy, and _______.
A. chemistry
B. economics
C. linguistics
D. physics
Cognitive domain: Analysis
Answer location: What is Cognitive Psychology?
Question type: MS
Ans: C
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4. Cognitive psychology arose from which fundamental field?
A. behaviorism
B. sociology
C. biology
D. philosophy
Cognitive domain: Knowledge
Answer location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Question type: MS
Ans: D
5. Who was one of the first psychologists to study cognition?
A. John Watson
B. Wilhelm Wundt
C. B. F. Skinner
D. Sigmund Freud
Cognitive domain: Knowledge
Answer location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Question type: MS
Ans: B
6. The study of cognition fell out of favor because of a rise in the field of _____.
A. philosophy
B. neuroscience
C. behaviorism
D. sociology
Cognitive domain: Comprehension
Answer location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Question type: MS
Ans: C
7. A belief in cognitive psychology reemerged following what event?
A. B. F. Skinner suggesting that language is learned through conditioning
B. John Watson’s experimentation on Little Albert
C. Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual stages of development
D. The development of information processing approaches to study the mind and
behavior
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Cognitive domain: Knowledge
Answer location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Question type: MS
Ans: D
8. Dr. Smith believes that overt, observable behavior is the only valid way that we can
study people. Dr. Smith is a ______.
A. sociologist
B. behaviorist
C. neuroscientist
D. cognitive psychologist
Cognitive domain: Application
Answer location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Question type: MS
Ans: B
9. Who coined the term, “cognitive psychology”?
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Sigmund Freud
C. Wilhelm Wundt
D. Ulric Neisser
Cognitive domain: Knowledge
Answer location: Development of Cognitive Psychology
Question type: MS
Ans: D
10. The _____ approach asserts that knowledge about the world is represented in our
minds such that cognitive processes can operate on the representations.
A. representationist
B. cognitive
C. behavioral
D. embodied cognition
Cognitive domain: Comprehension
Answer location: Representationalism
Question type: MS
Ans: A
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