PSY 200-Purdue Exam 1 Questions and Answers
2024 Update
cannot directly observe the mind - (correct answer) -biggest challenge for cognitive psychology
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introspection - (correct answer) -approach in studying the mind where you simply ask a person what they are thinking or
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1. difficult to verify
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2.difficult to replicate - (correct answer) -problems with introspectionty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty
behaviorism - (correct answer) -approach in studying the mind with an emphasis on what can be directly observed (only
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worries about stimulus and response)
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1. hard to account for creativity and diversity
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2. shouldn't limit science to only observable things - (correct answer) -problems with behaviorism
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cognitive approach - (correct answer) -approach in studying the mind where you infer what is going on inside the brain, and
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you consider all steps of processing
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subtraction method - (correct answer) -deal with the timing of processing ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty
1. assumes both detection stages have the same duration
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2. assumes sum of all stages is the true response time
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3. assumes everyone knows what all the stages are - (correct answer) -problems with subtraction method
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phrenology - (correct answer) -early studies of the bumps on your head and incorporating the location of the bumps with a
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ablated - (correct answer) -removed from brain ty ty ty ty ty ty
transected - (correct answer) -when the connection between 2 parts of the brain is removed
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1. cuts corpus callosum- 2 hemispheres no longer communicate
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2. 2 hemispheres act almost as 2 different brains - (correct answer) -What happened in split-brain patients?
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single-cell recording - (correct answer) -looks at individual neurons, the specific brain activity, and individual performance
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MRI - (correct answer) -3-D picture of the brain structure
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fMRI - (correct answer) -images of brain activity
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blood oxygen level dependent - (correct answer) -BOLD meaning
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fMRI technique - (correct answer) -which imaging uses the subtraction method to analyze a control task and a response task?
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DTI: diffuser tensor imaging - (correct answer) -imaging that analyzes the connections of the brain, uses water diffusion and
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EEG - (correct answer) -test involving a cap with electrodes that see which neurons in certain locations are firing per certain
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