Cognitive Psychology
In evaluating whether an applied psychology intervention successfully resolved a real-world issue, what type of study design is most informative?
Single-case design focusing solely on individual unique responses without comparing broader population effects.
Case studies providing detailed descriptions without empirical measurement or comparison against baseline statistics.
Pretest-posttest control group design measuring outcomes before and after applying interventions compared with untreated controls.
Cross-sectional surveys capturing attitudes towards interventions at one point lacking comparisons over time.
What type of long-term memory is responsible for skills and habits, also known as motor skills?
Procedural Memory
Semantic Memory
Episodic Memory
Declarative Memory
Which critique applies to Baddeley's Working Memory Model?
It fails to explain how components interact in complex tasks.
It suggests an unlimited capacity for working memory.
It entirely focuses on visual-spatial information and ignores auditory information.
It neglects the importance of sensory memory in initial processing.
What term describes the phenomenon where exposure to one stimulus influences a response to subsequent stimuli?
Priming
Encoding
Chunking
Scaffolding
What theoretical framework would propose that understanding cultural context is critical in determining whether behavior is considered normal or abnormal?
Formal Antisuperiorism
Interactionism
Conditional Reinforcement Theory
Cultural Relativism
Which memory system is primarily involved when an expert chess player can recall the positions of all pieces on the board after a brief glance, due to their extensive experience with various game patterns?
Short-term memory.
Long-term memory.
Sensory memory.
Working memory.
What role does the hippocampus play in memory storage?
It helps in transferring short-term memories to long-term ones.
It stores all our sensory memories.
It creates episodic memories only.
It retrieves implicit memories from long term storage.

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Which intervention would most effectively address cognitive distortions in a client diagnosed with depression?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Art Therapy
Somatic Experiencing
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Which type of amnesia involves the inability to remember events that occurred before the onset of amnesia?
Dissociative amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Transient global amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
What part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing long-term memory?
Pons
Cerebellum
Hippocampus
Medulla