Cognitive mcq Flashcards
In the experiment by Quinlan and Wilton (1998), the proximity and similarity principles were in “conflict”, which principle did participants rely on?
Half of the participants relied on the proximity and half on the similarity principle
Greogory’s constructive processing model of visual perception is an example of which type of approach?
A top down approach
Using dots of light, johansson (1975) found that people would accurately report human movement . Johansson concluded that processing human movement,,,,
automatic
Research in experimental cognitive psychology of memory has been influenced heavily by the work of which psychologist?
Herman van Ebbinghaus
Hyperthemesia is another term for which type of phenomenon
Highly superior autobiographical memory
Patient K.J’s vocabulary was excellent, which suggests what type of memory was relatively intact?
Semantic memory
Which of the following studies has NOT demonstrated that most people with amnesia have relatively intact implicit memory?
Ryan et al- scene relation tasl
In relation to statements about behaviourism, what is the most important charcteristic?
Skinner was not interested in what was happening between stimulus and response
Which study demonstrated that humans can switch from using an aloncentric stratergy to egocentric stratergy?
A virtual reality study on by larla et al (2003) in navigating in 8 arm radal maze
Which of the processes does is NOT though to occur in the hippocampus
processing of highly familiar environments
Spiers and Maguire (2007)scanned taxi drivers during a navigation task around london and found what?
Different areas of the brain were involved in different stages of navigation
“The relative frequency with which an event occurs or an attribute is present in the population” (koehler, 1966) refers to…
Base rate
The idea that more recent events are thoughts to occur more frequently refers to which heuristic
Availability
Kahnemans (2003) dual process model of judgement distingushes system 1 and sytem 2 processes. say one stament thats correct
Mistakes made by participants in judgement and decision tasks are due to participants relying on system 2 processes
People make mistakes in solving the Monty Hill problem because,,
They rely on simple heuristic and ignore the casuality
The overwhelming majority of problems used in psychological experiments are…
knowledge lean and well defined
According to Ohlssons (1992) theory, what prevents or delays a sudden change in the problem representation during insight problem solving?
Relying on past experiences
Which process suggests that people set up sub goals during problem solving?
Means end analysis
