Grossmont College Cognitive Psychology Questions

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS:

1. PLEASE CLEARLY SEPARATE YOUR ANSWERS FOR EACH OBJECTIVE SO IT IS CLEAR TO WHICH OBJECTIVE YOU ARE ANSWERING.
2. FOR FULL CREDIT YOU MUST REFERENCE OR CITE YOUR INFORMATION EVEN IF PULLED FROM MY LECTURE, MY LECTURE SLIDES, THE TEXTBOOK, POSTED YOUTUBE VIDEOS, OR ANY OTHER INTERNET SOURCE!
3. EVERY QUESTION SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE REFERENCE OR CITATION
   • NOTE: IT IS OK AND I EXPECT YOU TO PULL THE ANSWERS FROM MY LECTURE, THE LECTURE SLIDES, THE TEXT, AND OUTSIDE INTERNET SOURCES I JUST NEED YOU TO REFERENCE OR CITE IT! USE APA STYLE OR THESE SIMPLE EXAMPLES:
     • EXAMPLE: IF YOU GOT THE INFORMATION FROM THE TEXTBOOK USE THE PAGE NUMBERS: (TEXTBOOK, PG 84-86).

4. DEVOTE AT A VERY MINIMUM ONE PARAGRAPH TO EACH QUESTION (OBJECTIVE) OR QUESTION PART. 

Chapter Eight Objectives: 

1. How does schematic knowledge both help and hurt remembering? Give an example of each.
2. Explain what the misinformation effect is. What are the exact steps needed to produce the misinformation effect (implant a false memory) and provide an example?
3. What are THREE methods used to implant a false memory (from the misinformation studies)?
4. Describe in detail the FOUR theories of forgetting? Include a real-life example of each. 
5. Describe TWO ways top-down influences (bias, expectation, and prior knowledge) influence autobiographical memory?

Chapter Ten Objectives:

1. Describe HOW language is both organized and produced?
2. What are THREE problems of speech perception and explain how are all three solved?
3. Describe what specific evidence we have that syntax and grammar are innate?
4. What do we mean when we say Language Influences How We Think? Give an example of this and explain HOW this happens.