Cognitive Psychology
The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called
Cognitive Psychology
The key structural components of neurons are the
Cell body, dendrites, and axons
Your text describes the occurrence of a cognitive revolution during which dramatic changes took place in the way psychology was studied. This so-called revolution occurred parallel to (and, in part, because of) the introduction of
Computers
People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the
Oblique effect
The ability to focus on one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli is called
Cocktail party effect
The first experiments in cognitive psychology were based on the idea that mental responses can be
Inferred from the participants' behavior
If the intensity of a stimulus that is presented to a touch receptor is increased, this tends to increase the __________ in the receptors axon
Rate of nerve firing
Proponents of multitasking would note ________ to support their opinion, whereas opponents of multitasking would point to ________ to justify their perspective.
Divided attention; distraction
The sequence of steps that includes the image on the retina, changing the image into electrical signals, and neural processing is an example of _____ processing
Bottom-up
The technique where the participants task is to focus on the message in one ear, called the attended ear, and to repeat what he or she is hearing out loud is known as
Dichotic listening.
Which of the following methods, often associated with structuralism, was used in the psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt?
Analytic introspection
Neurons that respond to specific qualities of objects, such as orientation, movement, and length, are called
Feature detectors
The perception pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway, while the action pathway corresponds to the _____ pathway.
What; where
The task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on ones retina is called the
Inverse projection problem
Broadbents model is called the early selection model because
The filter eliminates the unattended information right at the beginning of the flow of information.
How is the term mind used in this statement: If you put your mind to it, I'm sure you can solve that math problem?
The mind as problem solver
Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored, often with jumbled sentence structure. Josiah may have damage to which area of the brain?
Broca's area
What does the principal of neural representation state?
Everything a person experiences is based on representations in the persons nervous system
The results of Gauthiers Greeble experiment illustrate
An effect of experience-dependent plasticity
A high threshold in Treismans model of attention implies that
It takes a strong signal to cause activation
Verbal Behavior was written by
B. F. Skinner
The idea that specific cognitive functions activate many areas of the brain is known as
Distributed representation
Which parts of neurons are also known as a nerve fiber?
Axons
The landmark discrimination problem is more difficult to do if you have damage to your _____ lobe
Parietal
The Stroop effect demonstrates peoples inability to ignore the __________ of words
Meaning