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  • 1. Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on the study of mental processes such as attention, memory, perception, problem-solving, and decision-making. It seeks to understand how people acquire, process, store, and retrieve information. Cognitive psychologists investigate how the mind works, exploring complex cognitive functions such as language development, problem-solving strategies, and reasoning. By studying these mental processes, cognitive psychology aims to enhance our understanding of human behavior and cognition, providing insights into various aspects of human experience and behavior.

    Who is considered the father of cognitive psychology?
A) B.F. Skinner
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Ulric Neisser
D) Ivan Pavlov
  • 2. What is the term for the mental process of organizing and interpreting sensory information?
A) Learning
B) Memory
C) Perception
D) Thinking
  • 3. What is the term for the process of transforming information into a form that can be stored in memory?
A) Interference
B) Decay
C) Encoding
D) Retrieval
  • 4. Which area of the brain plays a crucial role in memory formation?
A) Hippocampus
B) Prefrontal cortex
C) Occipital lobe
D) Cerebellum
  • 5. In classical conditioning, what is the unlearned response known as?
A) Reinforced response
B) Neutral response
C) Conditioned response
D) Unconditioned response
  • 6. What is the term for the ability to store and retrieve information over time?
A) Problem-solving
B) Creativity
C) Memory
D) Imagination
  • 7. Which term refers to the tendency for our memory of an event to be altered by misleading information?
A) Recall error
B) Misinformation effect
C) Memory augmentation
D) Cognitive dissonance
  • 8. What term describes the mental structures and processes used for organizing information?
A) Concept
B) Hypothesis
C) Schema
D) Algorithm
  • 9. What is the term for the interference of new information with the retrieval of old information?
A) Proactive interference
B) Encoding specificity
C) Retroactive interference
D) State-dependent memory
  • 10. Which term describes the process of breaking down complex information into smaller, more manageable parts?
A) Elaboration
B) Consolidation
C) Acquisition
D) Chunking
  • 11. Who proposed the stages of cognitive development, including sensorimotor and formal operational stages?
A) Lev Vygotsky
B) Erik Erikson
C) Jean Piaget
D) Lawrence Kohlberg
  • 12. What is the term for the phenomenon where the first items in a list are more easily remembered?
A) Primacy effect
B) Recency effect
C) Chunking
D) Sensory memory
  • 13. What is the term for the mental process of manipulating information in short-term memory?
A) Procedural memory
B) Metacognition
C) Selective attention
D) Working memory
  • 14. What is the term for the cognitive bias to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions?
A) Confirmation bias
B) Anchoring bias
C) Availability heuristic
D) Hindsight bias
  • 15. In which century did philosophical debates about human thought primarily occur?
A) 18th century
B) 17th century
C) 20th century
D) 19th century
  • 16. Who posited the idea of mind-body dualism, also known as substance dualism?
A) George Berkeley
B) John Locke
C) Immanuel Kant
D) René Descartes
  • 17. Which area of the brain was discovered by Paul Broca to be largely responsible for language production?
A) Broca's area
B) Hippocampus
C) Amygdala
D) Wernicke's area
  • 18. What was a major influence on cognitive psychology during World War II?
A) Development of behaviorism
B) Critique of empiricism
C) Founding of Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies
D) Understanding human performance for training soldiers
  • 19. What did Carl Jung introduce in his 1921 book 'Psychological Types'?
A) Behaviorist principles
B) Artificial intelligence concepts
C) The hypothesis of cognitive functions
D) Mind-body dualism
  • 20. What is an example of using procedural memory?
A) Driving a car
B) Remembering the name of a friend from sixth grade
C) Knowing what the Eiffel Tower looks like
D) Recalling where one was when hearing about a major news event
  • 21. What type of processing occurs for the unattended message in a dichotic listening task?
A) Long-term memory storage
B) Deep processing
C) Early sensory processing
D) Short-term memory analysis
  • 22. Who described the origins of cognitive psychology in a 2002 article?
A) Jean Piaget
B) George Mandler
C) Ulric Neisser
D) Carl Jung
  • 23. What does endogenous control in attention work in a manner that is best described as?
A) Bottom-up
B) Top-down
C) Reflexive
D) Orienting
  • 24. How many steps does Dodge's SIP model assert an individual goes through when evaluating interactions?
A) Four
B) Seven
C) Five
D) Three
  • 25. Can participants comprehend both passages when shadowing one in the dichotic listening task?
A) Only if the pitches differ.
B) If their name is mentioned.
C) No, they cannot.
D) Yes, they can.
  • 26. Who is credited as the father of cognitive therapy?
A) Carl Rogers
B) Aaron T. Beck
C) Daniel Kahneman
D) Sigmund Freud
  • 27. What happens if a participant's name is mentioned in the unattended ear during a dichotic listening task?
A) Some even orient to the unattended message.
B) They ignore it completely.
C) They can report its content accurately.
D) They store it in long-term memory.
  • 28. What can subjects notice about the unattended message in a dichotic listening task?
A) They can notice if the pitch changes or if it ceases altogether.
B) They cannot notice any changes.
C) They can comprehend and report its content.
D) They can store it in long-term memory.
  • 29. Which type of knowledge relates to performing particular tasks?
A) Declarative knowledge
B) Metacognitive knowledge
C) Hierarchical knowledge
D) Procedural knowledge
  • 30. What did cognitive psychology integrate into other branches and disciplines?
A) Dynamic psychology concepts
B) Behaviorist principles
C) Philosophical debates about empiricism
D) Work derived from cognitive psychology
  • 31. What concept did Donald Broadbent integrate with human performance research?
A) Mind-body dualism
B) Dynamic psychology
C) Information theory
D) Artificial intelligence
  • 32. Which book by Ulric Neisser popularized the term 'cognitive psychology'?
A) Psychological Types (1921)
B) Plans and the Structure of Behavior (1960)
C) A Study of Thinking (1956)
D) Cognitive Psychology (1967)
  • 33. Who defines social cognition as the study of mental processes in perceiving, attending to, remembering, thinking about, and making sense of people?
A) Jean Piaget
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Kenneth Dodge
D) Gordon B. Moskowitz
  • 34. Which area is NOT typically studied by cognitive psychologists in language?
A) Individual components of language formation
B) Language use in mood
C) Phonemes
D) Language acquisition
  • 35. What did the Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies, founded in 1960, aim to do?
A) Promote behaviorism
B) Institutionalize the cognitive revolution
C) Study dynamic psychology
D) Develop AI technology
  • 36. Which attentional system is responsible for the orienting reflex and pop-out effects?
A) Divided attention
B) Conscious processing
C) Endogenous control
D) Exogenous control
  • 37. Who proposed a model of language processing in the 1870s?
A) Carl Wernicke
B) B.F. Skinner
C) Noam Chomsky
D) Jean Piaget
  • 38. What phenomenon involves generating thoughts believed to be unique but are actually memories?
A) Validity effect
B) False fame effect
C) Déjà vu
D) Cryptomnesia
  • 39. In the dichotic listening task, what happens when the basketball-related message shifts to the right ear?
A) The listener cannot comprehend both passages when shadowing one.
B) The listener is usually able to repeat the entire message at the end, having attended to the left or right ear only when it was appropriate.
C) The listener cannot notice if the pitch of the unattended message changes.
D) The listener can report the content of the unattended message.
  • 40. What is metacognition?
A) Thoughts about one's own thoughts
B) Short-term memory processes
C) The study of language acquisition
D) Phoneme analysis in cognitive psychology
  • 41. What did J. S. Bruner, J. J. Goodnow & G. A. Austin write about in 1956?
A) 'Plans and the Structure of Behavior'
B) 'Psychological Types'
C) 'Cognitive Psychology'
D) 'A Study of Thinking'
  • 42. What did G. A. Miller, E. Galanter, and K. Pribram write about in 1960?
A) 'Psychological Types'
B) 'Plans and the Structure of Behavior'
C) 'A Study of Thinking'
D) 'Cognitive Psychology'
  • 43. What did cognitive psychology originate from in the 1960s?
A) Philosophical debates about innate ideas
B) Military research during WWII
C) A break from behaviorism
D) The establishment of AI
  • 44. Who critiqued behaviorism in 1959, initiating the cognitive revolution?
A) Noam Chomsky
B) J. S. Bruner
C) Donald Broadbent
D) Allen Newell
  • 45. Which two psychologists collaborated on the concept of artificial intelligence (AI)?
A) Noam Chomsky and J. S. Bruner
B) Carl Jung and Jean Piaget
C) Donald Broadbent and George Mandler
D) Allen Newell and Herbert Simon
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