Which theme of cognitive psychology relates to the relative contributions of our genetic inheritances and our surrounding environments?
a. structures versus processes
b. nature versus nurture
c. biological versus behavioral methods
d. rationalism versus empiricism
Ques. 2Mrs. M has difficulties with managing relationships. She is paranoid about anything that is said and often interprets comments as an attack on her or her family. These symptoms and others are studied by a therapist for years and then written up to help others understand her particular constellation of symptoms. This is an example of a ____.
a. naturalistic observation
b. psychobiological research
c. case study
d. self-report
Ques. 3Ecological validity refers to the degree to which lab data hold true when altered to account for ____.
a. ecological differences between the lab and the outside environment
b. the degree to which data gathered in a lab will apply outside the lab, given the influences of the environment on cognitive activity
c. the accuracy of predictions of how test subjects will react when placed in an environment with different ecological relationships
d. the effect ecological changes have on the behavior of organisms in the particular environment
Ques. 4Karpicke (2009) developed a task in which participants had to learn and recall Swahili-English word pairs. After subjects first recalled the meaning of a word, that pair was either dropped, presented twice more in a study period, or presented twice more in text periods. Subjects took a final recall test one week later. Which research method was used here?
a. artificial intelligence
b. controlled laboratory experiment
c. neuroscientific research
d. self-report
Ques. 5With _____, researchers program computers to imitate a given human function or process, or to solve a problem in the same way a human would.
a. computer simulations
b. ecological programming
c. social cognition
d. naturalistic observation
Ques. 6Lequoia decides to conduct a study at the mall. She watches people at the mall for very specific behavior and simply keeps track of the number of times the behavior occurred for various groups. This is be an example of ____.
a. naturalistic observation
b. structuralism
c. case study
d. self-report
Ques. 7Yaun participates in an experiment in which he sees various stimuli on a computer screen. After the experiment, Yaun is to provide feedback about what he thought was going on cognitively. This is an example of ____.
a. naturalistic observation
b. individual observation
c. case study
d. self-report
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