Cognitive Processes

Question 1

This dog looks like my dog.
But I think he’s an imposter.
Why do I think this?

Answer 1

Capgras Delusion

(You can get this by having bad brain damage, a bad
accident, a stroke, a period of being unconscious, or
have been in a coma. You experience no emotional
reaction in the presence of someone so the only
possible reason why you feel this way is because
they are an imposter)

Question 2

How did Archimedes
find a solution to his
crown problem?

Answer 2

-used bathtub analogy

-identified a meaningful
correspondence between
both situations thus avoiding
mental fixation

Question 3

A wise man by the name of Kanye West
once said, “I’m sorry, but Beyoncé had one
of the best videos of all time.” Before we all
questioned his belief, and now, 8 years
later, we know her video was indeed the
best of all time. What made our minds
change?

Answer 3

The sleeper

effect

Question 4

Is our memory

dysfunctional?

Answer 4

Nah
-our memory was designed to be
constructed and rewrite information

Question 5

Explain the DRM

Paradigm

Answer 5

-Participants studied a list of words. The test
required them to remember as many words from the
list as possible

-Results indicated people recalled a word related to
the list but not actually presented there “sleep” (this
word is known as a ‘lure’). Falsely remember sleep
because of the gist feature in our memory

-Participants made a false memory of seeing the
word on the list (semantic memory) and seeing the
word being mouthed by the researcher (episodic
memory)