COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY WK 1 Lecture

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1. Which of the following statements is correct?

  • We can typically remember things we did not attend to
  • If you are a victim of a violent crime, your memory for the perpetrator's face is perfect
  • People do NOT have personal memories of events that took place in the first three years of life
  • People do not have memories of things that never actually happened
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2. There are major problems with relying heavily on introspective evidence. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

  • We can only get introspective evidence from children & animals
  • We are largely unaware of many of the processes influencing out motivation & behaviour
  • Our reports of our conscious experience may be distorted
  • There is a delay between having a conscious experience & reporting it which could cause us to forget key parts

3. John Watson was the central figure of what psychological approach?

  • Humanism
  • Behaviourism
  • Introspection
  • Evolutionary Approach

4. Which sub-cortical structure helps regulate our sleep?

  • Amygdala
  • Thalamus
  • Hippocampus
  • Ventral Cortex

5. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

  • Memory is better for exciting events
  • Memory performance is better when you devote part of your preparation time to testing yourself rather than reading & re-reading material
  • Memory performance for an exam is worse if you learn all the information on a single day than if you spend the same time learning over several days
  • The questions asked to an eyewitness may change the actual memories of an eyewitness
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