The belief that most of our abilities and tendencies are with us from birth is known as:

All of the following statements are central to empiricism EXCEPT:

Historians date the founding of scientific psychology to the 1879 laboratory of:

Saying that cognitive theories must focus on events "between input and output" means that cognition must be analyzed at the level of

All of the following are basic assumptions of the traditional information-processing approach to cognition EXCEPT:

Which of the following is a basic assumption of the connectionist approach?

Which approach is most consistent with the way the brain functions?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a cognitive process?

Which scientific approach argues that a complete understanding of human behavior cannot be achieved without a good understanding of how information is mentally represented?

A traditional "school" within psychology that had as its goal the identification of the simplest possible units of the mind:

Which of the following is NOT one of the four properties that Wundt proposed as the basis for any conscious thought or idea?

A traditional "school" within psychology that focused on what role the mind serves for an organism:

Which of the following is true regarding Watson's behaviorism?

Which of the following is a central tenet of the Gestalt school of psychology?

Which of the following was instrumental in producing the "cognitive revolution"?

A traditional "school" within psychology that saw the mind as a "black box" that could not be objectively studied was known as

Connectionist models share the assumptions) that

The information processing paradigm uses what metaphor to represent the human mind?

A paradigm in psychology answers all of the following questions EXCEPT:

Processes that occur simultaneously rather than one at a time are known as ____ processes.

The term ___ refers to the relevance of the research to the "real world."

The major disadvantage of naturalistic observation is the lack of:

Which of the following has the highest ecological validity?

Which of the following allows us to support claims about cause-and-effect relationships?

Since the 1970s, various techniques of ____ have allowed us to construct pictures of the anatomy and functioning of intact brains.

Which brain imaging technique uses radioactive tracers to measure blood flow?

To measure an area of the brain's response to a specific event, we use:

The function of the thalamus is to:

Which of these structures is involved in the formation of long-term memories?

Which of these structures modulates the strength of emotional memories and is involved in emotional learning?

The part of the cerebral cortex at the back of the head is called the ___ lobe.

The ___ lobes are involved in the processing of sensory information from the body, such as pain, pressure, touch, and temperature.

Damage to the occipital lobe could result in difficulty processing:

"Executive functioning" involves all of the following EXCEPT:

About 95% of all human beings show a specialization for language in the:

CAT scans are usually used to:

Which of the following neuropsychological method(s) provide(s) information about the amount of dynamic blood flow to various regions of the brain?

Split brain operations involved severing which brain structure?

Injury to Broca's area results in an inability to:

Jan has difficulty understanding spoken language. Jan may have suffered damage to:

The meaningful interpretation of environmental stimuli is called

A cognitive process that begins with small bits of information gathered from the environment and ends with higher order processes putting these bits of information together into a meaningful percept would be described as:

Anne is driving down a residential street on a Saturday afternoon, and expects that she may see children playing outside on such a sunny, warm day. Out of the corner of her eye, she detects movement between two parked cars at the side of the road. She immediately presses the brake, interpreting the movement as that of a child. Later she is relieved to see that the movement came from an empty paper bag that is blowing in the wind. Anne's initial perception of the movement as that of a child can best be explained through the notion of

According to Biederman, ___ language. are to visual perception what alphabets are to

One model of perception emphasizes that a percept is compared to idealized holistic representations in memory and matched to the one it most closely approximates. This model is known as:

When common objects such as kitchen utensils are presented in a jumbled display,

A letter is easier to perceive in the context of a word. Which of the following models explains this finding by arguing that activation of the relevant node for the word also activates the nodes corresponding to the letters within the word?

Visual agnosias involve

Prosopagnosia is a specific visual agnosia for

Biederman's component model is an example of

Which theory states that we divide patterns into their parts and identify the parts in order to decide what the pattern is?

The finding that it is easier to recognize a letter in the context of a word than in isolation or in a nonword is called

Template theory states that

Structural theories of pattern recognition extend feature theories by

Biederman's Component Model is used to describe what kinds of objects

A major difference between a feature theory and a template theory is

We see the figure below as a set of rows rather than columns because of the Gestalt principle of

Which of the following represents a good example of a proximal stimulus?

Which of the following poses a problem for featural analysis theory?