Cognitive Final Exam Quiz

Police only put one suspect in the lineup, the rest are known innocents.

The equivalent of the cognitive interview for interviewing children is known as the....

An example of a test of eyewitness recognition would be

The second leading cause of wrongful convictions is...

Unit of cognitive information imprinted in a physical substance

Which of the following was not used in studies of the weapon focus effect?

Engrams occupy a localized portion of the brain, such that one can erase a memory with a well-placed ice pick.

Why is telling the witness "the perpetrator may not be in the lineup" a good idea?

Infants as young as one day old can distinguish their mother from a stranger by sight

Giving a verbal description of the face makes remembering the face more difficult

Which lobe of the brain is the last to mature in early adulthood?

The mechanism which allows the brain to heal itself and to have pliable (changable) memories is...

With sequential lineups, the witness is tasked with making an ______________ judgement

CBT is the most researched form of psychotherapy (most amount of studies).

The famous study by Rovee-Collier investigating conjugate reinforcement involved the use of

The cross-race effect makes misidentification _____ times more likely

In the Simon and Chabris gorilla and basketball study participants are

Babies can recognize their mother's voice before they are even born.

Adolescents value short term gain over long-term consquences resulting in poor decision-making abilities.

Air traffic controllers have a mandatory retirement age of...

An example of a test of eyewitness memory recall would be

The term "engram" was coined...

Because PFC is still developing in adolescents, teens tend to over-rely on what part of the brain?

High scores on visuospatial memory indicate better reading ability in children.

The U.S. Navy's Innovation Battle Lab came up with a standardized 9-line MEDEVAC to

Which of the following is not a strategy employed in CBT

A standard 6-pack lineup where six photographs are shown to the witness at once is a ______________ lineup

The context reinstatement technique in the cognitive interview centers around which cognitive psychology principle?

The cross-race effect is driven by racial attitudes.

Verbal overshadowing occurs more commonly with which kind of lineup?

The documentary you watched last week in class featured two psychologists. Which one was the experimental psychologist?

The inability to retrieve memories from before the age of 4.

Tweets containing false information circulate more rapidly on social media than those containing reliable information

A showup is...

Fabricated information that mimics news media content in form, but not in organizational process or intent

A famous study examining child suggestibility that involved a man visiting a classroom and children being interviewed

How do military HUMINT interviews differ from police interviews?

The study where college students were compared with 4th grades on memorizing items in a list was the....

How did researchers investigate infants voice recognition prenatally (before birth)?

Recognition memory capability differs between older and younger adults; younger adults outperform the elderly

Two year olds can hold four numbers in working memory in a digit span task

A lineup provides a witness with more potential retrieval cues than an interview recall task

How do babies get the mobile to move in the conjugate reinforcement experiment?

One of the neurobiological causes of Alzheimers is...

Which population tends to show deficits in "directed forgetting".

What are the basic stages of memory?

Which theory do research psychologists now believe best explains the weapon focus effect?