PSY 320 Quiz Question
Which of the following were key factors that contributed to the cognitive revolution?
dissatisfaction with behaviorism, information processing, a change in the kinds of
questions researchers were interested in studying
The study of how we know things
Epistemology
How we know things
empiricism and rationalism
The idea that we know things through observation, through our senses
Empiricism
The idea that we know things in ways other than through observation, such as through
logical reasoning
Rationalism
The things that we measure
dependent variables
The thing that we manipulate to see how these manipulations affect the dependent
measure
independent variables
Variables that you try to control and make constant across all levels of the independent
variables
extraneous variables
Comes from experience
empirical knowledge
We have not experienced the future and therefore ____________about the future
based only on empirical knowledge
cannot make predictions
The position that the mind and the body are physical
Materialism
Cannot be applied to something that is not material
empirical data collection
To have the science of psychology, the mind is assumed to be