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Foundations of Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

An overview of the key pioneers, early experiments, and foundational discoveries in the field of cognitive psychology.

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10 Questions Easy Ages 15+ Oct 12, 2026

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1 Who is credited with founding the first experimental psychology laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig?

A Wilhelm Wundt
B William James
C Sigmund Freud
D B.F. Skinner

2 Hermann Ebbinghaus is most famous for conducting the first scientific studies on what cognitive process?

A Attention
B Memory
C Problem solving
D Language acquisition

3 In 1956, George Miller published a famous paper identifying the capacity limit of short-term memory as what?

A Seven plus or minus two
B Five plus or minus one
C Ten plus or minus three
D Twelve plus or minus four

4 Which Swiss psychologist is best known for his pioneering theory of cognitive development in children?

A Lev Vygotsky
B Jean Piaget
C Erik Erikson
D John Watson

5 The 'Turing Test', proposed by Alan Turing, was designed to evaluate which cognitive capability in machines?

A Emotional intelligence
B Physical dexterity
C Human-level intelligence
D Memory storage capacity

6 Ulric Neisser coined the term 'Cognitive Psychology' and published the first textbook by that title in which year?

A 1945
B 1957
C 1967
D 1982

7 Donald Broadbent proposed the 'Filter Model' of attention in 1958, which suggests we process information based on what?

A Physical characteristics
B Emotional value
C Complex meaning
D Past experiences

8 The study of the 'Mental Rotation' of objects, demonstrating how we manipulate visual images in our minds, was pioneered by whom?

A Roger Shepard
B Noam Chomsky
C Elizabeth Loftus
D Herbert Simon

9 Noam Chomsky famously challenged B.F. Skinner’s behaviorist view of language by proposing the existence of what?

A A social learning device
B A language acquisition device
C A memory enhancement tool
D A visual processing system

10 The Stroop Effect, discovered in 1935, primarily demonstrates the difficulty of what cognitive task?

A Recalling word lists
B Inhibiting automatic responses
C Solving logical puzzles
D Recognizing facial expressions

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