Topic 1

Name 5 areas or activities that fall under the scope of cognitive psychology.

What does RT (reaction time) tell us? What are its components and why do we take multiple measurements of it?

What is the difference between choice RT and simple RT?

What is unconscious inference?

Why are Donders, Helmholz, and Ebbinghaus important?What is behaviorism?

What was the cognitive revolution?

Describe the analogy between the cognitive system and the computer in information processing models.

What is a memory buffer?

Describe Shepard and Metzler's (1971) mental rotation experiment. What does it tell us?

Describe Atkinson and Shiffrin's Model of Memory. What are its components?

What is rehearsal (covert speech)?

Why do cognitive psychologists need both, the physiological and the behavioral approach?

 

 

Topic 10