PSYCH 375 Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers

Introspection way of learning about one's own currently ongoing, or perhaps very recently past, mental states or processes first used by Wilhelm Wundt Wilhelm Wundt Father of experimental psychology/ developed the introspective method Mary Whiton Clarkins studied memory/ know for discovering the "recency effect" which states that the most recent thing that was presented is remembered the best William James father of American Psychology- would think about his own cognitive processes Behaviorism study of observable behaviors and how we respond to stimuli B.F. Skinner big on behaviorism// learning is a function of overt behavior John B. Watson Believed that he could mold individuals by controlling the stimulus present to them Little Albert Experiment- infant learned that the rat was bad after it was paired with the bell Cognitive Revolution shift away from behaviorism to cognition in early 1900s Hermann Ebbinghaus interested in memory and cognitive methods Nonsense syllables- how long it took him to learn those syllables Tracking forgetting- how long it took him to forget those syllables E.C. Tolman famous for latent learning and cognitive map set up maze for rats and trained them how to get to goal state with rewards - rats learned most effective route and was able to come up with a cognitive map of the maze Noam Chomsky controversial linguist who believed the speech was an innate ability