Exam 6: Errors in Attention, Perception, and Memory That Affect Thinking

Tuckey and Brewer (2003) found that participants' recall of a simulated robbery showed the greatest schema effects when what the participants observed was:

Research has shown that there is a special brain area for face processing (Gauthier et al., 1999) and that cross-culturally people are very good at recognizing facial expressions for basic emotions (Ekman, 1994). According to the text, these findings _____ support for the _____ that eyewitness identification is accurate.

The "change blindness blindness" effect found by Levin, Momen, Drivdahl, and Simons (2000) shows that people often:

Which critical reading strategy would MOST likely help Gavin quickly activate his prior knowledge and understand the organization of ideas in a lengthy psychological text?

Simons and Levin (1998) conducted an experiment in which a participant gave directions to a confederate or a person secretly working with the experimenter. This was suddenly interrupted as a panel was carried between the participant and the confederate. At this time, the confederate switched places with a second confederate carrying the panel. Participants often did not notice the switch and resumed giving directions to the new man, showing an effect called:

Which statement regarding cognitive errors is TRUE?

The chapter discusses evidence of how Ronald Cotton was misidentified as a rapist by Jennifer Thompson. This evidence is:

As participants in a study by Simon and Chabris (1999) counted passes of a basketball on a video they watched, they failed to see a person walking around in a gorilla suit. This is an example of:

The effect of weapon focus on eyewitness memory:

Which statement is the MOST reasonable conclusion based on the evidence presented in the text on the accuracy of eyewitness memory?

Cynthia thinks that eyewitness memory is based on expectation and the influence of prior knowledge. She holds a view MOST consistent with the idea that memory is:

After Obi finished his meal, the waitress brought the "xxxxx." A person's ability to finish this sentence with the word "check" illustrates the operation of:

Which concept BEST explains why a person would mistake the planet Venus for a UFO?

When people believe that they have seen a ghost, that experience is MOST likely:

A person who thinks that long-term memory and eyewitness memory are _____ MOST likely views memory as reproductive.

Tuckey and Brewer (2003) had participants in a study watch a simulation of a bank robbery. The participants tended to recall one robber as a male even though the robber's head was covered. The BEST explanation for the participants' recall is:

Many studies have shown that driving while talking on a cell phone puts drivers at greater risk of accident due to:

Palmer (1975) conducted a classic experiment in which participants viewed a kitchen scene, after which they rapidly viewed images of a loaf of bread, a similarly shaped mailbox, and a drum. Which statement BEST explains the participants' better recognition of the bread than the other objects?

Magicians' feats of "magic" are MOST consistent with an explanation from psychological research about the:

The Australian psychologist Donald Thomson was on television talking about memory while a woman was being raped. The woman later falsely accused Thomson of the crime. The misidentification was MOST likely an example of: