Schema Theory
Methods & Ethics in cognitive research
Memory Models
The reliability of memory
Thinking and Decision Making
100

This type of schema refers to how things work and patterns of behavior that are learned through our interaction with the environment.

What is a Script Schema?

100

Because Breyer and Treymens used this in the beginning of their study the ethical implications must be scrutinized.  

What is deception?

100

This store is now referred to as working memory.  

What is short-term memory?

100

In their second, follow-up experiment in 1974 what was the key question asked by Loftus and Palmer?  

What is did you see broken glass?  

100

This psychologists model of thinking differentiates between and instinctive, intuitive and a analytical logical system of thinking.  

Who is Daniel Kahneman?  

200

This type of processing information derived from the senses is later interpreted based on the influence of relevant schemas.

What is Bottom-up processing?

200

Brown and Kulik (1977) found differences in what assassinations led to flashbulb memories in participants based on this characteristic?   

What is race? 

200

Observations by Baddeley and Hitch using this technique asks participants to simultaneously process inputs involving listening and vision led to the working memory model. 

What is the dual-task technique?

200

Loftus claims that questions that are suggestive in some way - and post-event information facilitate schema processing which may influence the accuracy of recall. What is this effect called?

What is the misinformation effect?  

200

Because humans do not have the time, motivation, or resources to employ full cognitive processing, Fiske and Taylor referred to them as this.  

What are cognitive misers?  

300

This Psychologists linked self-schemas to the development of depression with his negative cognitive triad.  

Who is Aaron Beck?

300

what was the independent variable of Loftus and Palmer (1974)?  

What is the intensity of the verb (smashed, collided, bumped, hit, contacted)?

300

The MSM suggests that modality specific - that is, hearing and vision enters this store for a few seconds.  

What is sensory memory?

300

What Psychologists first proposed the theory of Flashbulb memory?  

Who are Brown and Kulik (1977)?  

300

System 1 thinking often employs these ‘rules’ or shortcuts used to make decisions or form judgments quickly.  

What are heuristics?  

400

In the Brewer and Treymens study, the participants were more likely to remember items in the office that fit into or were this in relation to their office schema.

What is congruent?

400

Deception was used in Brewer and Treymens and in the Loftus false memory studies to avoid this. 

What are demand characteristics?

400

If you are trying to learn a song in French, when you are practicing the new words in your head, what part of the Working Memory Model is being used?

What is the phonological loop?

400

Sharot et al (2007) asked participants to retrieve memories of 9/11 while placed in one of these.  

 What is an fMRI?

400

System 2 Thinking requires this type of processing?  

What is effortful processing?  

500

The results of Anderson and Pichert (1978) showed that participants asked to change their perspective recalled this percentage more information relevant to the new schema. 

What is 7.1%

500

Neisser & Harsch carried out a classic study of flashbulb memory using these two research methods.

What are interviews and questionnaires?  

500

Baddeley, Lewis and Vallar (1984) aimed to find the effec tof this blocking of the inner voice on the phonological similarity effect.  

What is articulatory suppression?  

500

This can be seen as a mediator between physiological arousal and the subsequent emotional response.  

What is cognitive appraisal? 

500

In an experiment to show anchoring bias Englich and Mussweiler told half of the participants were told that the prosecutor demanded this long of a sentence; while the other half were told that he demanded this long.  

What is the 34 vs. 2 months?