Test Bank For Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience 4th Edition

Test Bank For Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience 4th Edition

CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The example at the beginning of the book, in which Raphael talks to his friend on a cell phone on his way to class, was used to illustrate how

a. cognitive psychologists study problem solving in adults.

b. complex but seemingly effortless human cognition is.

c. human cognition is affected by emotional events.

d. both physiology and behavior is important to the study of cognition.

ANS: B REF:  page 2

TYPE:  CONCEPTUAL DIF:  MODERATE

2. The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called

a. cognitive psychology.

b. introspection.

c. behaviorism.

d. memory consolidation.

ANS: A REF: page 5

TYPE:  FACTUAL DIF:  EASY

3. Attention, perception, memory, and decision making are all different types of mental processes in which the mind engages. These are known as different types of 

a. models.

b. cognition.

c. reaction times.

d. savings.

ANS: B REF: page 5

TYPE:  FACTUAL DIF:  EASY

4. Donders’ main reason for doing his choice reaction time experiment was to study 

a. perception.

b. attention.

c. decision making.

d. memory.

ANS: C REF: page 7