Chapter 1
Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience · 4 exercises
Problem 2
Why could we say that Donders and Ebbinghaus were cognitive psychologists even though in the 19 th century there was no field called cognitive psychology? Describe Donders's experiment and the rationale behind it, and Ebbinghaus's memory experiments. What do Donders's and Ebbinghaus's experiments have in common?
4 step solution
Problem 3
Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology? Describe the method of analytic introspection that was used in this laboratory.
3 step solution
Problem 5
Describe the rise of behaviorism, especially the influence of Watson and Skinner. How did behaviorism affect research on the mind?
5 step solution
Problem 9
What are two suggestions for improving your ability to learn from this book?
3 step solution