cognitive psychology essay assignment

Essay assignment 1 (Choose 3 out of 5 questions, each answer to be about 300 words long (i.e. slightly less than 1 double-spaced pg). Paper to be in APA format)

1. How do behaviorists seek to study and understand the mind? What were the challenges that Tolman�s and Chomsky�s pose to behaviorism?

2. Compare and contrast the behavioral and physiological approaches to the study of the mind. Explain how memory consolidation could be studied differently using each approach.

3. Explain how action potentials change in response to stimulus intensity. Use examples from two sensory modalities to illustrate this process.

4. When a picture of an object is partially covered, humans can still easily identify the object. First, using the recognition-by-components approach, explain why humans can identify an object that is partially obscured. Second, name and explain how three Gestalt principles are at work when humans identify the obscured object.

5. What is experience-dependent plasticity? Describe the kitten-in-the-tube experiment and the Greeble experiment. What is behind the idea that neurons can reflect knowledge about properties of the environment?
€¢Limit your responses to 300 words or fewer