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Cognitive Psychology Flashcards

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1
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Which two psychologists proposed the multi-store model of memory (MSM)?

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Atkinson and Shiffrin.

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How is information transferred from the sensory memory to the short-term memory?

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Attention.

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How is information transferred from the short-term memory to the long-term memory?

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Elaborate rehearsal.

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What is the encoding of the sensory memory?

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Auditory, visual, tactile.

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What is the encoding of the short-term memory?

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Acoustic.

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What is the encoding of the long-term memory?

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Semantic.

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What is the duration of the short-term memory?

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~20 seconds.

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What is the duration of the long-term memory?

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Unlimited.

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What is the capacity of the short-term memory?

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7±2 items.

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What is the capacity of the long-term memory?

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Unlimited.

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Which study investigated the existence of sensory memory?

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Sperling.

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Which study found that there is a distinction between short- and long-term memory?

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Glanzer and Cunitz.

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What are three pieces of neurological evidence for the distinction between short- and long-term memory?

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HM, KF, Clive Wearing.

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Which two psychologists investigated the capacity of short-term memory?

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  1. Jacobs.

2. Miller.

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Which study investigated the duration of short-term memory?

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Peterson and Peterson.

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Which study investigated the duration of long-term memory?

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Bahrick.

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Which study investigated the encoding of short-term memory?

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Conrad.

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Which study investigated the encoding of long-term memory?

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Baddeley.

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Which psychologists proposed the working memory model?

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Baddeley and Hitch.

20
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What are the four components of the working memory model?

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  1. Central executive.
  2. Phonological loop.
  3. Visuo-spatial sketchpad.
  4. Episodic buffer.
21
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What is the phonological loop further divided into?

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Articulatory process loop and phonological store.

22
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Which study provides evidence for the phonological loop?

A

Baddeley.

23
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Which study provides evidence for the visuo-spatial sketchpad?

A

Shepard and Feng.

24
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Which study provides evidence for the central executive?

A

Baddeley.

25
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Which study (involving the differentiation between a stop and yield sign) investigated the effects of misleading information on EWT accuracy?

A

Loftus.

26
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When the stop/yield study was accused of demand characteristics, what did the researcher do?

A

Offered a monetary incentive for providing correct answers. Participants were still influenced by misleading information, and made errors.

27
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Which study into EWT investigated high-probability scenarios, and their effect on recall?

A

List.

28
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Which study investigated the presence of schemata in EWT?

A

Tuckey and Brewer.

29
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Which study into EWT involved a video of a boy being shot in the face?

A

Loftus and Burns.

30
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Which study investigated the ‘weapon focus’ effect?

A

Loftus.

31
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Which study investigated the effect of proximity on recall?

A

Christianson and Hubinette.

32
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Which study investigated the impact on EWT regarding the words “a” and “the”?

A

Loftus and Zanni.

33
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Which study investigated the impact on EWT regarding the verb used in the question?

A

Loftus and Palmer.

34
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Which researcher said that children were more likely to make identifications, but with less accuracy?

A

Dekle.

35
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Which study investigated ‘source monitoring’ in children?

A

Poole and Lindsay.

36
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Which study investigated the significance of time delay on children’s recall?

A

Flin.

37
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Which study found that elderly people were more likely to fail to mention important details?

A

Yarmey.

38
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Which study found that elderly people were more susceptible to misleading information?

A

Cohen and Faulkner.

39
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Which study found evidence for the ‘own-age bias’?

A

Anastasi and Rhodes.

40
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What are the four stages of the cognitive interview?

A
  1. Recall Everything (RE).
  2. Reinstate Context (RC).
  3. Recall reversed Order (RO).
  4. Recall changed Perspective (RP).
41
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Which study found positive results for the use of the cognitive interview?

A

Geiselman.

One man, leaping out of a geyser. At the top of his voice, he quizzes his witnesses.

42
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Which memory improvement technique involves the use of a poem, and associations to a list?

A

The peg-word method.

43
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Which memory improvement technique involves the use of a known place, and associations with that area?

A

The method of loci.

44
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Which study investigated the use of chunking?

A

Katona.

He stands with a katana, slicing chocolate into chunks. All so you can remember his name.

45
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Which study found that recall is more successful if recalling in the same room as it was learnt?

A

Jerabek and Standing.

David Beckham with a jerboa on top of his head.
Alone, he stands in a room.
He remembers everything.

46
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Which study investigated the effectiveness of active processing?

A

Craik and Lockhart.

The sham of a professor converses with Harry Potter about the craic. Having to actually interact with the foolish man means Harry retains this painful conversation for the rest of his life.

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