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