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