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Use the following Study Description to answer questions 4 through 7:
A researcher is interested in examining the relation­ship between one’s actual memory abilities and one’s perception of how good his or her memory abilities are. Subjects in this study are given a study list of words and asked to remember these words after a short delay. They are also given a questionnaire and asked how good the subject thinks his or her memory is, where a high score means the subject thinks he or she has high memory abilities. The researcher finds a small but positive relationship between the memory test scores and the questionnaire scores.
 
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1. Enter the letter for the approach to the study of cognition next to its corresponding definition below:
(a) Representationalism
(b) Embodied cognition
(c) Biologically motivated models
___ describe cognitive processes in a similar fashion to the physiological functioning of the brain
___ describe cognitive processes as operating on knowledge concepts represented in our minds
___ describe cognitive processes as the interplay
5. Explain how you know which research design is being used.
7. The results indicated a positive relationship between the variables that were measured. Explain what this means.
8. In what way does an experiment differ from other research designs?
10. What are two “metaphors of the mind” that have influenced the development of theories of cognition?
11. What are two developments that led to a rapid expansion of the field of cognitive psychology after the mid-twentieth century?
12. Describe Donders’s experiments and explain how they propose to measure cognitive processes.