History, Methods and Models in Cognitive Psychology

________ is a type of introspection in which trained participants describe their thoughts and perceptions to stimuli while several trained experimenters analyzed their responses.

Edward Tolman discovered that some rats would not improve their speed on a maze until they were rewarded. Tolman called this _________

Who taught the first class in psychology offered in the United States?

A parent wants their three year old child to stop saying "shut up", so they decide to scare the child, by yelling, every time the child says "shut up". What psychological theory is this parent using?

Which year, do cognitive psychologists celebrate as the birthday of cognitive psychology?

Research methodology can best be described as a ______.

George Miller proposed that ____ was a magic number because this was the amount of items that people could hold in short-term memory (plus or minus 2).

The first computer program that could reason like a human was called the _____.

__________ models illustrate how a cognitive process operates.

Models are important to cognitive psychology because