Cognitive Psychology Questions
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Craig and John attended the NCAA Championship basketball game 10 years ago. Craig claims that fans rushed onto the court after the game, while John stresses that the fans did not rush onto the court. What fact of memory best supports how two people can have different recollections of the same event?
Ryan fell down a step and broke his leg when he was 2 years old, but he has no memories of it happening. This is best described as:
Which of these is NOT a difference between laboratory settings and real-life settings in studying eyewitness testimony?
After Loftus was told that she was the one who found her mother's dead body, which of the following did she NOT experience?
Long ago, which of the following were NOT considered centerpieces of the classical education in the language arts?
After many sessions of hypnosis by her therapist, Nadean Cool experienced recalling all of the following false memories EXCEPT:
What was the event that led Nadean Cool to realize that she had created a whole new past for herself?
In the experiment by Saul Kassin, ______________ of the participants signed a form stating that they committed the "crime" of pressing the "alt" key. Of the participants, _______ recalled textured memories of pressing the key.
When chess pieces are randomly arranged on a chess board, how many positions can the average chess master remember?
What do actors call the units that they break their lines into?
Why does Rovee-Collier change the task from the mobile to the train with older babies?
You are selected to serve on a jury for a case where a man is being convicted of stealing the UCI mascot and throwing it into a pit filled with countless fire ants. Because you have taken Psych 46A, you know that before accepting eyewitness testimony as truth, we should remember that ____________.
Connor witnessed a murder at a drum line competition. When he was brought in for questioning, the detective calmed Connor down and asked him to recall everything that he had seen. The detective was very patient and never interrupted Connor. At the end of the interview, he had Connor recall the last event of the crime and work backwards from that point (tell the story backwards). In this case, the detective is using which of the following techniques of interrogation?
At what level in the Burke-MacKay theory do the proper name Baker and the occupation baker differ the most?
What are the two components of artificial memory, according to Ad Herennium?
Ken Norman of the University of Colorado, Boulder, gave an analogy in the False Memories film between the parts of the memories of an event and a set of balloons on strings. In the analogy, what part of the brain serves as the hand that holds all the strings of the balloons to unite them?
Six-month-old Zachary has learned to kick when his leg is attached to a mobile positioned over his head. Psychologists would suggest that this demonstrates the development of _________ memories.
Bill sustained a head injury and while his memory seem fine in other respects, he cannot remember names of familiar people. He probably sustained damage to
What name is given to decreasing the number of items to remember by increasing the size of each (combining items)?
Which of these does not cause suggestibility of young children as witnesses?