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OCR A-Level Psychology cognitive area core studies overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. In Loftus and Palmer's first experiment, which verb produced the highest mean speed estimate?

  2. In Loftus and Palmer's second experiment, what false memory did the 'smashed' group report more often?

  3. What did Loftus and Palmer conclude about memory?

  4. Grant et al. (1998) studied which phenomenon?

  5. In Grant et al.'s study, when did participants perform best?

  6. What technique did Moray (1959) use to study attention?

  7. Roughly what proportion of Moray's participants detected their own name in the rejected ear?

  8. Moray's own-name finding mainly challenges which model?

  9. In Simons and Chabris's study, what task were participants doing?

  10. Roughly what percentage of participants failed to notice the unexpected event in Simons and Chabris's study?

  11. Which condition reduced noticing in Simons and Chabris's study?

  12. What core assumption links all four cognitive-area studies?