Cognitive Psychology Mastery

The "cocktail party effect" describes:

1. Forgetting names
2. Getting tired at parties
3. Seeing colours in music
4. Noticing your name in a conversation you were not attending to

Broadbent's filter model of attention proposes that:

1. Only meaning matters
2. Attention is unlimited
3. All information is processed fully
4. Information is selected early, based on physical features

In the famous "invisible gorilla" study, many viewers failed to notice a gorilla because of:

1. Short-term memory loss
2. Colour blindness
3. Inattentional blindness
4. Poor eyesight

Change blindness is:

1. Failing to notice changes in a visual scene
2. Fear of change
3. Seeing changes that are not there
4. Colour blindness

The Stroop effect shows that:

1. Words are easier than pictures
2. Colours are hard to see
3. People read slowly
4. It is hard to name the ink colour of a word that spells a different colour

Heuristics are:

1. Brain areas
2. Mental shortcuts for making judgements
3. Types of memory
4. Step-by-step guaranteed procedures

The availability heuristic leads us to judge something as more likely when:

1. Examples come easily to mind
2. It is rare
3. We have no information
4. It is statistically common