Cognitive Psychology 3rd Edition McBride Test Bank
Test Bank for Cognitive Psychology Theory Process and Methodology 3rd Edition By Dawn M. McBride, J. Cooper Cutting, Corinne Zimmerman, ISBN: 9781544398327, ISBN: 9781071888698, ISBN: 9781544398341
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 2 Cognitive Neuroscience
Chapter 3 Perception
Chapter 4 Attention
Chapter 5 Memory Structures and Processes
Chapter 6 Long-Term Memory Retrieval
Chapter 7 Memory Errors
Chapter 8 Language
Chapter 9 Concepts and Knowledge
Chapter 10 Imagery
Chapter 11 Problem Solving
Chapter 12 Reasoning
Chapter 13 Decision Making
Chapter 14 Cognitive Development
We use ______ to accomplish everyday tasks.
neuroscience
cognition
correlation
priming
Which of these terms refers specifically to the ability to focus on one stimulus among the many that are in
our environment?
sensory perception
attentional process
memory retrieval
Cognitive psychologists who focus on the role of consciousness in human thought processes want to know
how much ______ we have in our behaviors.
repetitiveness
social dysfunction
ability
conscious choice
The process of being aware of one’s own cognitive abilities and processes is known as ______.
decision making
language acquisition
metacognition
attention
Cognitive psychology is broad and thus overlaps with many other fields including biological psychology,
philosophy, and ______.
chemistry
astronomy
social psychology
robotics
Cognitive psychology has been a field of study ______.
since the 1950s
since the 1920s
for over 100 years
for thousands of years
Ancient scholars in which field asked the first questions related to cognitive psychology?
behaviorism
sociology
biology
philosophy
Fechner contributed to the early work in cognitive psychology by conducting studies on ______.
psychophysics
auditory processing
nerve conduction
introspection
Who was one of the first psychologists to study cognition?
John Watson
Wilhelm Wundt
B. F. Skinner
Sigmund Freud
Which psychologist extensively tested his own memory to develop theories of cognition?
Aristotle
Wundt
Ebbinghaus
Chomsky
