IB Psych - Cognitive Approach SAQ Prompts & Studies

Explain one model of memory with reference to one study.

Landry & Bartling - WMM, articulatory suppression, phonological loop

Explain schema theory with reference to one study.

Brewer & Treyens - remembered congruent items but not incongruent office items (ex: skull)

Explain one model of thinking and decision making with reference to one study.

Tversky & Kahneman - multiplication, dual process model, system 1 and 2

Explain one ethical consideration in one study of one cognitive process.

Brewer & Treyens - deception by omission, didn't know experiment had started and not all details of experiment explained

Explain the use of one research method in one study of one cognitive process.

Landry & Bartling - experiment, 2 conditions, cause and effect between articulatory suppression and recall

Explain the Working Memory Model with reference to one study.

Landry & Bartling - articulatory suppression, phonological loop

Explain the Multi-Store Model with reference to one study.

Glanzer & Cunitz - listing words, primacy and recency

Explain reconstructive memory with reference to one study.

Loftus & Pickrell - reconstruction of chilhood events, "lost in the mall" study

Explain one bias in thinking and decision making with reference to one study.

Tversky & Kahneman - multiplication, anchoring bias

Explain one study of the influence of emotion on one cognitive process.

Yuille & Cutshaw - robbery witnesses, people didn't forget the emotional memory even with leading questions

Explain the use of one research method in one study of the reliability of one cognitive process.

Loftus & Pickrell - questionnaire

Explain one study on the reliability of one cognitive process.

Loftus & Pickrell - "lost in the mall," 25% recalled false memory

Explain one ethical consideration in one study of the reliability of cognitive processes.

Loftus & Pickrell - deception by commission, incorrect information given to participants about childhood memories

Explain one ethical consideration in one study of the effect of emotion on cognition.

Neisser & Harsch - attrition rate, participants leaving over the years of the study

Explain the use of one research method in one study of the effect of emotion on cognition.

Neisser & Harsch - questionnaire