Cognitive Psychology Questions
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The misinformation effect can usually be understood as an example of
The misinformation effect refers to the fact that false information, presented after a participant has encoded an event, can alter the participant's subsequent recall of the event. This "planting" of memories
Suppose that your professor tells you that you must locate a journal article about cognitive psychology that presents empirical evidence. You should look for an article that a) provides a theoretical explanation for previous research. b) studies humans, rather than other animals. c) uses at least two different statistical analyses.d) emphasizes evidence collected in experiments.
What neurotransmitter was studied using rats and is proven to affect memory?
Strong hypothesis: language _______ perception
__________ proposed that children learn language as a result of reinforcement.
She studied _______ and eyewitness accounts
Weak hypothesis: language _______ perception
What part of the brain is associated with implicit (procedural) memory?
How many phonemes in the English language?
What part of the brain is associated with explicit (declarative) memory?
A label used to represent a class of objects or events is called a(n)
Case study of explicit memory/hippocampus
How many phonemes in all languages combined?
Rearranging the elements of a problem in order to find a new solution is called
Understanding the meaning of words or phrases when they appear in certain sentences or in a certain context is called
Changing and reorganizing the information stored in memory to create new or transformed information is called
Critical period: children must be exposed to language by age ____
The English language uses about _____ different sounds.
__________ is the first stage of language development.