PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM
PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
Cognitive psychology is primarily concerned with which of the
following? ANS >> what we know, what we remember, and how
we think
Psychologist Edward Titchener claimed to have identified and
catalogued nearly 10,000 sensations that he observed within
himself. What method best describes his approach? ANS >>
Introspection
A researcher says she is of the same school of thought as
scholars Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener. You can gather
from this statement that she feels that the best way to study
thoughts is to: ANS >> have only highly trained and qualified
people introspect about their own thoughts
,PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM
Which of the following was NOT one of the problems associated
with introspection as a research technique? ANS >> how people
react to a stimulus is heavily influenced by past experience
A psychologist who adheres to the behaviorist school of
thought would most likely attribute someone reaching for a
slice of pie to: ANS >> a learned behaviour in response to specific
environmental triggers
Which of the following behaviours is most difficult to explain
from a behaviorist perspective? ANS >> your response to a
stimulus is dependent on how you interpret that stimulus
Which of the following is the LEAST accurate statement about
behaviourism? ANS >> behaviourism is primarily designed to
explained why organisms believe their behaviour is justified or
reasonable
Modern psychologists follow Kant in arguing that the solution to
the impasse between introspectionism and behaviourism lies in
a method in which we begin with _________ and then proceed
to ___________. ANS >> observable facts; likely internal causes
,PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM
What is the most precise explanation for why many aspects of
psychology (and most of cognitive psych) rely on inferential
methods? ANS >> psychology often demands hypotheses about
process that can't be observed directly in order to explain the
capacities and the behaviours that we can observe
Which of the following is a way in which cognitive psych is
different from physics? ANS >> psychologists must take into
account the way in which participants interpret their study
Which of the following concerns is NOT addressed by adopting
a cognitive approach to the study of psychology? ANS >> (?) many
mental processes unfold so rapidly that it is difficult to observe
them
Martin is trying to understand why he has been forgetting
things lately. As a well-trained cognitive psychologist, Martin is
likely to investigate this puzzle by: ANS >> examining the
circumstances associated with his memory failures, including
the complexity or familiarity of the material and how fully he
paid attention to the material during learning
, PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM
Which of the following claims about the cognitive revolution is
true? ANS >> its methods and tools spread to many other areas of
psychology
Tolman's work with rats in mazes: ANS >> showed that learning
involves the acquisition of knowledge
Who wrote a strong critique of behaviourism in the 1950s? ANS
>> Noam Chomsky
The statements "please pass the salt" and "gee, this food really
needs some salt" are both likely to produce the same salt-
passing response at the dinner table. This illustrates that: ANS >>
the meaning of an utterance, not the physical stimulus, is most
important for predicting behaviour
Gestalt psychologists argued which of the following? ANS >> the
perceiver is of central importance in organizing his or her own
experience
Bartlett contributed which of the following to the field of
cognitive psychology? ANS >> the idea of a "schema," which is a
perception and mental framework
PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
Cognitive psychology is primarily concerned with which of the
following? ANS >> what we know, what we remember, and how
we think
Psychologist Edward Titchener claimed to have identified and
catalogued nearly 10,000 sensations that he observed within
himself. What method best describes his approach? ANS >>
Introspection
A researcher says she is of the same school of thought as
scholars Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener. You can gather
from this statement that she feels that the best way to study
thoughts is to: ANS >> have only highly trained and qualified
people introspect about their own thoughts
,PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM
Which of the following was NOT one of the problems associated
with introspection as a research technique? ANS >> how people
react to a stimulus is heavily influenced by past experience
A psychologist who adheres to the behaviorist school of
thought would most likely attribute someone reaching for a
slice of pie to: ANS >> a learned behaviour in response to specific
environmental triggers
Which of the following behaviours is most difficult to explain
from a behaviorist perspective? ANS >> your response to a
stimulus is dependent on how you interpret that stimulus
Which of the following is the LEAST accurate statement about
behaviourism? ANS >> behaviourism is primarily designed to
explained why organisms believe their behaviour is justified or
reasonable
Modern psychologists follow Kant in arguing that the solution to
the impasse between introspectionism and behaviourism lies in
a method in which we begin with _________ and then proceed
to ___________. ANS >> observable facts; likely internal causes
,PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM
What is the most precise explanation for why many aspects of
psychology (and most of cognitive psych) rely on inferential
methods? ANS >> psychology often demands hypotheses about
process that can't be observed directly in order to explain the
capacities and the behaviours that we can observe
Which of the following is a way in which cognitive psych is
different from physics? ANS >> psychologists must take into
account the way in which participants interpret their study
Which of the following concerns is NOT addressed by adopting
a cognitive approach to the study of psychology? ANS >> (?) many
mental processes unfold so rapidly that it is difficult to observe
them
Martin is trying to understand why he has been forgetting
things lately. As a well-trained cognitive psychologist, Martin is
likely to investigate this puzzle by: ANS >> examining the
circumstances associated with his memory failures, including
the complexity or familiarity of the material and how fully he
paid attention to the material during learning
, PSY 357 MIDTERM 1 EXAM
Which of the following claims about the cognitive revolution is
true? ANS >> its methods and tools spread to many other areas of
psychology
Tolman's work with rats in mazes: ANS >> showed that learning
involves the acquisition of knowledge
Who wrote a strong critique of behaviourism in the 1950s? ANS
>> Noam Chomsky
The statements "please pass the salt" and "gee, this food really
needs some salt" are both likely to produce the same salt-
passing response at the dinner table. This illustrates that: ANS >>
the meaning of an utterance, not the physical stimulus, is most
important for predicting behaviour
Gestalt psychologists argued which of the following? ANS >> the
perceiver is of central importance in organizing his or her own
experience
Bartlett contributed which of the following to the field of
cognitive psychology? ANS >> the idea of a "schema," which is a
perception and mental framework
