2: Methods in Cognitive Psychology

Question 1

What was the Sternberg 1966 memory experiment?

Answer 1

Participants were presented with a memory set and then asked a question about it

Do we search the set one item at a time or all at once?

As the size of the set increases, so does the time to awnser the question.

Means we search one item at a time

Question 2

What is the Dunning-Kruger effect?

Answer 2

People hold favourable views of their own abilities in social situations and intellectual domains.

Unskilled people have a dual burden of not being able to reach the correct conclusions and not realising it

Question 3

What is verbal protocol research?

Answer 3

Where participants are asked to ‘think aloud’ as they solve a problem

Question 4

What are some issues with verbal protocol research?

Answer 4

People go silent when they get to a difficult part in the question so it’s difficult to study effectively

Also, it’s self-report so some of the processes may be unconscious so unreported