People tend to make two types of assumptions when they study the mind. The first assumption concerns what the important questions are; the second assumption concerns _______ about the mind.

For most of the past 2000 years, people tended to ignore _______ processes involved in vision.

The kind of philosophical speculation that predated cognitive psychology is often referred to as __________speculation.

Aristotle concluded that the mind must be located in the _______ rather than the brain because while humans sometimes survived serious brain injuries, a serious injury to this region was invariably fatal.

In contrast to the medieval emphasis on contemplation and logic, the scientific successes of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Harvey were triumphs of the method of _________ as a means of discovering truths about the world.

If a person believes that human beings are predictable and that their behavior is not influenced by free will, that view is known as __________.

__________ was a method of studying thinking, a method that required participants to undergo rigorous training to learn how to follow and report their thought processes.

From the 1920s until the early 1960s virtually all experimental psychologists in America belonged to the ________ school of psychology.

In the 1950s, the behaviorist idea that humans were a "blank slate" written on by experience rather than by heredity was challenged by ethologists who discovered _______ patterns.

Currently, many cognitive psychologists use a metaphor that likens the brain to _______.