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The Cognitive Approach Revision Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

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1.

Research over a period of time using observations, interviews or psychometric testing is described as ____________

a)

cross-sectional

b)

longitudinal

c)

associative

d)

retrospective

2.

Brown & Kulik's research on flashbulb memories was _________ research because it was study of individuals after an important change or development.

a)

retrospective

b)

prospective

c)

longitudinal

d)

associative

3.

___________ memory is to explicit memory as procedural memory is to ___________ memory.

a)

Semantic; explicit

b)

Declarative; implicit

c)

Procedural; implicit

d)

Episodic; explicit

4.

A heuristic that occurs when an individual relies too heavily on an initial piece of information when making decisions is the _______________

a)

availability heuristic

b)

priming effect

c)

anchoring bias

d)

framing effect

5.

General knowledge of facts and people and concepts that is not linked to time and place is knows as ________________.

a)

episodic memory

b)

implicit memory

c)

transactive memory

d)

semantic memory

6.

Riding a bike, an unconscious memory of a skill, is an example of a

a)

procedural memory

b)

semantic memory

c)

explicit memory

d)

episodic memory

7.

Jennifer Thompson identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker, probably due to misleading information incorporated into one's memory after the event. This is an example of

a)

availability heuristic

b)

anchoring bias

c)

the misinformation effect

d)

the framing effect

8.

A recollection of the details about your sixteenth birthday would be an example of a ______________.

a)

semantic memory

b)

implicit memory

c)

declarative memory

d)

episodic memory

9.

The _________ is a a cognitive bias where people decide on options based on whether the options are presented with positive or negative connotations; e.g. as a loss or as a gain.

a)

availability heuristic

b)

misinformation effect

c)

anchoring bias

d)

framing effect

10.

A memory error which produces fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, is called _______________.

a)

confabulation

b)

the framing effect

c)

the misinformation effect

d)

utter confusion

11.

Encoding is...

a)

a mental shortcut that allows people to solve problems and make judgments quickly and efficiently.

b)

the initial learning of information by placing information into memory storage.

c)

the ability to access information from memory when you need it.

d)

a component of Baddeley & Hitch's Working Memory Model responsible for processing auditory information.

12.

Baddeley and Hitch's elaboration of the short-term memory store resulted in the ____________.

a)

Working Memory Model

b)

Multistore Memory Model

c)

Dual Process Theory

d)

Diathesis-Stress Model