Cognitive Psychology Questions
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T or F: Individuals tend to hold strong beliefs in the accuracy of their flashbulb memories.
They read 'Timmy closed the drawer'. They reach away from themselves to make a response.
Suppose a patient said the following: "Uh...I...the..tub and ... h...h..hot''. Such an utterance would be consistent with:
You should be [faster] judging the second word of the [associated] pairs, than the [unassociated] pairs according to the ROBUST EFFECT. This demonstrates the idea of
Readers look at low-frequency words longer than at high-frequency words also known as
The fact that people can remember things because of their significance and when they occurred in their life but tend to distort or alter the facts refers to:
Broadbent's model has been called a ___ because the _____ restricts information flow much as the neck of a bottle restricts the flow of liquid.
The episodic buffer is the component of the working memory model which is responsible for:
incomplete or inaccurate retrieval may lead to...
Visual perception and memory interact by providing a window into the world creating ________.
The process of creating a new memory in long-term memory is called _______, while the process of accessing information stored in long-term memory is called _______.
Responsible for storing information for long periods of time
In the load theory of attention of Forster and Lavie (2008), if you are carrying out a ___ task, no processing capacity remains and therefore you are less likely to be distracted by other tasks.
Responsible for storing information for a few seconds
While Tariq takes the bus home, he is thinking about how to resolve a difficult issue at work. This example particularly highlights the value of ___.
Attending to one thing while ignoring others is termed as ___.
In this week's COGLAB, you should find that you were slightly slower with the _______ cues than the ______. This is an example of ________ attention.
The predominant theme of the information-processing approach holds that the operation of the mind occurs ___.
In this week's COGLAB, imagine there were trials with no cues. In those trials you should be equally fast/slow as in the:
Which one of these early pioneers in cognitive psychology was the first to undertake a quantitative measurement of forgetting?