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)
