Cognitive Psychology Key Concepts

Slips in human behaviour typically occur when someone is not paying enough attention while trying to do which of the following?

Being in a “tip of the tongue” state is best described by the inability to access information about a word's:

Which of the following is a test of working memory?

Loftus’ studies on eye-witness memory demonstrates that memory is:

The Encoding-Specificity-Principle (Tulving) states that we remember best if we:

The process by which the representation of a problem is changed in order to find the appropriate solution is known as:

In a dichotic listening task, "shadowing" involves listening to different messages delivered simultaneously to each ear, and:

Which statement fits best with the cognitive view of the subconscious?

Which of the following is a "well-defined" concept?

In order to observe false memory in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, the false memory items (critical lures) should:

Deconstructing an object into a set of component features that can be compared to information in memory is known as:

If you needed to remember what presents you received for your birthday a year ago, you would use your:

Luchin’s "Water-Jar Problem" shows how problem solving can be impaired by:

_______ amnesia refers to an impaired ability to remember events that took place before the damage that caused the amnesia.

What statement is the most correct? Memory is a by-product of:

A type of logical inference people tend to find difficult:

Which of the following is most important for facilitating understanding and remembering information when parsing sentences?

The problem space theory involves:

Research has investigated the relationship between inspection time and intelligence. Which of the following best describes this relationship?

Which of the following is a test of the ability to inhibit task-irrelevant information?

It is easier to solve Maier’s two string problem if:

What cognitive ability is (primarily) measured by the Standard Progressive Matrices?

According to what theory is the identification of objects based on the recovery of some of the constituent parts (and their configuration)?

False memory can be demonstrated when people erroneously recall or recognise words that were not on a study list. In the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm, the study lists contain:

The stop sign has a unique shape that makes it easier to detect in traffic. We can spot it easily by:

Alice suffers from a peculiar perceptual deficit, such that she does not recognize her own face in the mirror. This phenomenon is called:

______ perception involves the central idea that we use both sensory information, prior knowledge, and cognitive processes when we perceive.

The process that results in the transformation of external information to mental representation is called:

A particular form of error attributed to the representativeness heuristic is:

What cognitive ability is (primarily) measured by the Digit Span task?

It is common to see that people are faster to recognize words that are a common part of their occupation. What do we call this effect?

Learning without a general plan, by painstakingly trying out various solutions, usually without success is known as:

Long-term storage of declarative memories is primarily dependent on:

In a study by Godden and Baddeley's (1975) it was found that Scuba divers better recalled lists learned under water when they were tested under water and better recalled lists learned on land when they were tested on land. What is this an example of?

In comparison to the Gestalt approach, what approach is more widely applicable to a range of problem types?

The lexical bias of errors in speech production means that the result is most likely to be:

Which approach to concept formation and categorisation is based on developing an ideal example that best represent a category (even if the example does not actually exist)?

Nested categories, with some categories being included in others (e.g. the category "birds" is a subset of the category "animals") are known as:

False memory in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm can be seen as an example of:

What can be defined as 'a group of entities that exist in the natural world'?

What level of abstraction is known as the "basic level" in prototype theory?

A form of knowledge representation that preserves the essence of an event in abstract form

What is defined as a memory structure that encodes both default and variable information about an object or category?