Psychology Cognitive Approach ERQ's

Discuss the use of one or more research method using the cognitive approach to understand cognitive processing.

Loftus & Palmer (Car crash) - Brown and Kulik (Flashbulb memory)

Evaluate research on reconstructive memory

Loftus & Palmer (Car crash) - Yuille and Cutshall (eyewitnesses of a robbery)

To what extent is one cognitive process reliable?

Loftus & Palmer (Car crash) - Yuille and Cutshall (eyewitnesses of a robbery)

Discuss ethical considerations relevant to using a cognitive approach to understand the reliability of cognitive processes.

Milner (HM) -

Discuss research on cognitive biases.

Strack and Mussweiler - (Anchoring bias) - Kahneman (peak-end rule)

Discuss one theory of thinking and decision making

Wason (Stroop Effect) - Stanovich and West (System 1 and 2 thinking)

Contrast two models of memory.

Atkinson & Shiffrin (Multi-Store model) Miller (7) - Milner (HM) - Glanzer & Cunitz (repetition for memory) - Brewer & Treyens (Schema theory)

Evaluate schema theory

Bartlett (War on the Ghosts) - Brewer and Treyens (Office object recall)

Evaluate one theory of how emotion may affect one cognitive process.

Brown & Kulik (Special mechanism hypothesis) - McGaugh & Cahill (Boring and exciting story)

Evaluate research on the influence of digital technology on cognitive processing.

Festinger (Social Comparison Theory) - Chou and Edge (Heuristics)