Review: Exam 3 Ch 7

Everyday memory (autobiographical memory, PM, first memories, flashbulb memories)

False memory; CL False memory (Roediger & McDermott, 1995) Reconstructive memory; CL Von Restorff effect Eyewitness testimony

Ch 10 Language; CL Lexical decision Bilingualism (Sebastian-Galles et al., 2005); CL Categorical

perception

Ch 11 Problem solving; CL Wason selection

Ch 12 Decision making; CL decision making

Chapter 7: “Everyday” memory

What is autobiographical memory and what are some of the research questions associated with it?

How does autobiographical memory develop? What is infantile amnesia and first memories?

What is the reminiscence bump and what are theories and methods used to explain it?

How has autobiographical memory been studied/measured?

What are flashbulb memories? How are they same/different from other types of memories?

Is autobiographical memory accurate?

Chapter 7: Reconstructive memory and “Forgotten” memories What are schemas and scripts? What methods have been used to study influence of

schemas on memory? Do schemas improve or lower memory accuracy? What is the misinformation effect? Methods? Findings? What factors influence the formation of false memories? What is known about repressed and recovered

memories? What methods are used to study

reconstructive/false/recovered memories? What factors effect eyewitness testimony accuracy? What factors effect the accuracy of memory?

Chapter 10: Language

What is the definition of language? What is the structure of language? What methodologies are used to study

language? What factors effect word perception? What factors effect sentence comprehension? What are pragmatics and what are some topics

studied? Does language change the way you think? What is known about the brain and language? What are the research questions, methods and

findings related to bilingualism?

Chapter 11 & 12: Problem solving and decision making

How do we represent problems in mind? What are problem solving strategies? What methods can be used to study problem

solving/decision making/reasoning? What are factors that bias problem solving? What are ways to improve problem solving? What are factors that bias decision making?

CogLabs: Question? Methods? Findings?

False memory Von Restorff effect Lexical decision Categorical perception Wason selection Decision making

Overall questions

What are the topics studied by cognitive psychologists?

What are some of the major research questions in cognition?

Compare/contrast methodologies used to study cognitive processes?

How do findings in certain areas of cognition inform other areas of cognition?

What future research still needs to be conducted to further understand cognitive processes?

Cumulative Essay Questions

Are humans accurate or inaccurate processors of information (or both)? Explain your answer for each of the following areas: perception, attention, memory, problem solving/reasoning. Provide specific evidence for your answer wherever possible.

Many topics in cognition overlap. Describe the connection between two areas of cognitive psychology. For example: attention and decision making; perception and language; memory and creativity/expertise. Provide a suggestion for future research in one of these merged areas.