Cognitive Psychology
What possible ethical issue could occur if a psychologist publishes research findings that are deliberately falsified?
Unauthorized release of data
Inadequate debriefing
Fraudulent data reporting
Dual relationships
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 psychological principle explains why individuals living in high-stress environments may demonstrate poorer episodic memory recall than those living under moderate stress conditions?
Difficulty:
High levels of chronic stress can impair hippocampal function critical for episodic memory formation and recall.
Incorrect Answer Choices
Explanation:
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)
In what way does the concept of collectivism versus individualism potentially affect the serial position effect during list learning tasks?
There is no discernible impact since serial position effect is a cognitive phenomenon unaffected by cultural dimensions.
Both collectivist and individualist cultures demonstrate a stronger recency effect due to its universal cognitive basis.
Collectivists may focus more on middle items that represent group continuity, while individualists remember first and last items better.
Individualists might show an enhanced primacy effect because they prioritize early information as personal advantage.
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 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

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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 part of the brain is primarily responsible for processing long-term memory?
Pons
Cerebellum
Hippocampus
Medulla
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.