Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology

The misinformation effect refers to:

Which heuristic involves judging the likelihood of events based on how easily examples come to mind?

According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin model, information is processed through which sequence?

Retroactive interference occurs when:

Confirmation bias is the tendency to:

Noam Chomsky argued that language acquisition is:

The spacing effect demonstrates that:

What is the difference between recall and recognition?

Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that:

After hearing about airplane crashes on the news, a person overestimates the likelihood of dying in a plane crash. This is an example of the:

Noam Chomsky proposed that humans are born with a(n):

The spacing effect suggests that studying is most effective when:

Proactive interference occurs when:

Elizabeth Loftus's research on the misinformation effect demonstrates that:

Context-dependent memory suggests that recall improves when:

Source amnesia occurs when a person:

Riding a bicycle is an example of:

Which memory concept best explains Group A's superior performance?

The pattern of recall in this experiment demonstrates which phenomenon?

The difference in responses between the two groups illustrates which concept?

Based on this research, approximately how many items can working memory hold?

Patient H.M.'s case demonstrates that:

Maria's difficulty is most likely due to which phenomenon?

What memory strategy does Group B's grouping illustrate?

The changes in the story across retellings best illustrate which concept?

Maria easily remembers the phone number 1776149218 after reorganizing it as 1776-1492-18. Maria is using which memory strategy?

James can ride a bicycle and type on a keyboard without consciously thinking about the individual movements, but he struggles to explain the steps verbally. These abilities are best described as examples of:

Participants are asked to study a list of words related to sleep (pillow, bed, rest, tired, dream). On a subsequent memory test, many participants "remember" seeing the word "sleep" even though it was never presented. This phenomenon is known as

Elizabeth Loftus's research on eyewitness testimony showed that the wording of a question can alter a witness's memory. In her experiment, participants who were asked how fast cars were going when they "smashed" into each other estimated higher speeds than those asked about "contacted." This demonstrates