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Misinformation Effect

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a question that is phrased in a way so it guides the responder towards a particular answer?

a)

Loaded question

b)

Misguided question

c)

Leading question

d)

Lost question

2.

What researcher was one of the first to study schema and he used a Native American story in some of his studies?

a)

Loftus

b)

Bartlett

c)

Palmer

d)

Stone

3.

What were the five verbs in Loftus and Plamer's (1974) experiment?

a)

smashed, contacted, hit, bumped, collded

b)

smashed, grazed, hit, touched, collided

c)

smashed, rear-ended, hit, collided, bumped

d)

smashed, approached, hit, collided, contacted

4.

What is the name of the cognitive bias of focusing and remembering information that is consistent with existing schema?

a)

Collective bias

b)

Consistency bias

c)

Concentrated bias

d)

Confirmation bias

5.

Stereotypes are a type of what kind of schema?

a)

Script

b)

Satiricle

c)

Sound

d)

Social

6.

According to Schema Theory, the function of schema is

a)

to improve comprehension of new information

b)

to save cognitive energy

c)

to allow generalizations of people and events

d)

to create expectations

e)

all of the answer choices are correct

7.

How could schema influence behavior?

a)

It could lead to confirmation bias.

b)

It could lead to the formation of stereotypes.

c)

It could improve comprehension.

d)

All of the answer choices are accurate.

8.

How might stereotypes influence behavior?

a)

It could lead to discriminatory actions.

b)

It could lead to confirmation bias.

c)

It could lead to hindsight bias.

d)

It could lead to conflict resolution.

9.

What study shows that schemas help us comprehend new information because they allow us to relate new information to existing schema.

a)

Basketball study - Stone et al.

b)

Misinformation effect - Loftus and Palmer

c)

Laundry study - Bransford and Johnson

d)

War of Ghosts study - Bartlett

10.

What is it called when you alter information during recall so that it is consistent with your existing schema?

a)

Realization

b)

Rationalization

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Recommendation