Learning
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Pioneers of Cognitive Psychology
Random Cognitive Psychology
100

 Who proposed that children’s language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement?

B. F. Skinner

100

What type of memory are you dependent on whenever you are driving your car (specifically the "feel" for how to drive the car)?

implicit memory (or procedural memory)

100

The ability to gain knowledge through experience is called...

intelligence

100

This pioneer of cognitive psychology believed that humans only have one type of intelligence, which he referred to as “g.”

Charles Spearman

100

A dog receives a treat every time it fetches a ball. Which schedule of reinforcement does this illustrate?

fixed ratio

200

What kind of memories are considered as facts?

semantic memory

200

What two major brain structures are involved with explicit/declarative memory?

frontal lobes; hippocampus

200

The extent to which a test technique provides repeatable results (i.e., yields the same score across administrations)

reliability

200

This pioneer of cognitive psychology coined the learning process of reinforcement to Thorndike’s law of effect. This process is when behavior reoccurs as a result of a consequence of that behavior.  

B.F. Skinner  

200

An individual that is unable to establish new memories after a certain point in time is displaying symptoms of _________.

anterograde amnesia

300

When you imagine each turn as you instruct a friend on how to get to your house, this is the example of what?

using a cognitive map

300

Friday night you had a little too much to drink and ended up losing your phone. In your sober state Saturday morning, you cannot recall where you left your phone. You make the decision to drink again Saturday night, and after a few you end up remember where you misplaced your phone. What type of memory were you relying on?

state-dependent memory

300

Your American history teacher asks the class to recall the date of when the U.S. Constitution was signed. You raise your hand and reply, “September  17, 1787.”  What type of intelligence were you relying on?

crystallized intelligence

300

Which pioneer of cognitive psychology believed that not only were there different forms of intelligence, but that individuals have different types of intelligence at different levels in eight various areas?

Howard Gardner

300

The ability to recognize and understand emotions within yourself and others refers to _________.

emotional intelligence

400

First discovered in monkeys, these neurons are activated when you perform or observe a particular behavior

mirror neurons

400

The ________ effect occurs when your recall of an episodic memory is skewed due to the influence of post-event information.

misinformation

400

Whenever you contemplate all the different possible captions you might use before posting to your Instagram account, you are using this type of problem solving strategy

divergent thinking

400

Which pioneer of cognitive psychology believed that high achievement in life is dependent on one’s practical intelligence, analytical intelligence, and creative intelligence?

Robert Sternberg  

400

You are able to recall a specific memory in vivid detail, but can’t seem to remember the source of the memory. You are experiencing ______.

source amnesia

500

You grew up with your elder sibling displaying great fear towards snakes. From watching your sibling, you begin to display a deep-rooted aversion towards snakes as well. This is an example of what?

vicarious conditioning (or observational learning)

500

What process refers to the long-lasting reinforcement of synapses between two stimulated neurons that acts as a central mechanism in memory formation?

long-term potentiation (LTP)

500

Originally developed by Alfred Binet, and then revised by Lewis Terman, the _______ test is an alternative to the Wechsler Intelligence test.

Stanford-Binet Intelligence

500

Which pioneer of cognitive psychology hypothesized the forgetting curve, which explains that memory declines over time as a result of not attempting to retain it?

Hermann Ebbinghaus

500

The idea that intelligence test scores are gradually improving over time on a global scale refers to The ______  Effect.  

Flynn

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