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regarding children's language development, noam chomsky noted that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. from this, he concluded that language development is driven largely by
which of the following psychologists is known for research on operant conditioning
an important contribution to the field of psychology resulting from wilhelm wundt founding his laboratory at the university of leipzig in 1879 was
The "Little Albert" experiment involving the rat and the loud noise is an example of which of the following types of experiments?
john watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of
who introduced the flow diagram to represent what is happening in the mind?
the field that studies how to make machines behave in ways that are intelligent if a human were so behaving is known as
which of the following methods, often associated with structuralism was used in psychology laboratory established by wilhem wundt?
in donder's experiment on decision making, when participants were asked to press a button upon presentation of a light, they were engaged in a
The relationship between the _____ is NOT measured directly by cognitive psychologists
the branch of psychology concerned with scientific study of the mind is called
According to Ebbinghaaus's savings curve, savings is a function of
by comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiments as indicating how long it took to ____________
the first formal laboratory of psychology, where the approach of structuralism was created, was founded in which city?
Introspection is a technique for probing the mind
A structural model is a physical representation of a thing
Colin Cherry's experiment in which participants listen to 2 message simultaneously, one in each ear, found all BUT which of the following?
Edward Tolman did early research in a clinical psychology
which of the following events is most closely associated with a resurgence in interest in the mind within the study of psychology?
what year is usually cited as the "birthday" of cognitive science?