Lesson 2.2.1

2.2.1 Memory: eyewitness testimony and context-dependent memory Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. What was the independent variable for experiment one in Loftus and Palmer's landmark car crash study?

    • Verb used
    • Speed estimated
    • Car colour
    • Video duration

  2. How many participants took part in Loftus and Palmer's first experiment regarding eyewitness testimony?

    • 45 students
    • 150 students
    • 100 students
    • 30 students

  3. Which verb yielded the highest mean estimated speed in Loftus and Palmer's first experiment?

    • Smashed
    • Collided
    • Hit
    • Bumped

  4. What was the mean speed estimate in mph for participants given the verb 'hit' in experiment one?

    • 38.1 mph
    • 34.0 mph
    • 31.8 mph
    • 39.3 mph

  5. How many total participants took part in Loftus and Palmer's second experiment on leading questions?

    • 90 students
    • 150 students
    • 45 students
    • 200 students

  6. What misleading question was asked to participants in experiment two regarding broken glass?

    • Saw broken headlights
    • Saw blood stains
    • Saw any glass
    • Saw skid marks

  7. How many participants in the 'smashed' condition reported seeing broken glass in experiment two?

    • 1 participant
    • 16 participants
    • 7 participants
    • 34 participants

  8. How many participants in the control condition reported seeing broken glass in experiment two?

    • 16 participants
    • 0 participants
    • 12 participants
    • 6 participants

  9. What cognitive phenomenon do Loftus and Palmer's findings on leading questions primarily demonstrate?

    • Memory distortion
    • Retrograde amnesia
    • Sensory adaptation
    • Echoic decay

  10. If a witness adopts the misleading phrasing of an interviewer, what psychological vulnerability are they showing?

    • Proactive interference
    • Central executive overload
    • Post-event contamination
    • Semantic displacement

  11. During a police interview, a witness is asked about a non-existent red hat. What term describes this?

    • Leading question
    • Control variable
    • Distractor item
    • Closed query

  12. Which study famously investigated context-dependent memory using deep-sea divers learning lists of words?

    • Milgram and Elms
    • Loftus and Palmer
    • Baron-Cohen et al.
    • Godden and Baddeley

  13. What was the finding when learning and recall contexts matched in the Godden and Baddeley study?

    • Zero interference
    • Lower recall
    • Increased forgetting
    • Higher recall

  14. A student revises for an exam in the exact silent hall where they will sit it. Which concept applies?

    • State-dependent cue
    • Acoustic encoding
    • Context-dependent cue
    • Maintenance rehearsal

  15. Which cognitive mechanism explains why matching environmental retrieval cues improves memory performance?

    • Retroactive inhibition
    • Trace decay
    • Cue dependency
    • Displacement theory

  16. What type of experimental design did Godden and Baddeley use in their classic context-dependent memory study?

    • Field experiment
    • Natural experiment
    • Independent measures
    • Repeated measures

  17. If a depressed person recalls sad memories more easily, what type of memory effect is occurring?

    • Context-dependent
    • Primacy effect
    • State-dependent
    • Phonological loop

  18. What was the occupation of the participants in Godden and Baddeley's study?

    • Clinical psychologists
    • Police officers
    • University students
    • Deep-sea divers

  19. Which experimental design involved participants being tested both on land and underwater?

    • Matched pairs
    • Repeated measures
    • Quasi-experimental
    • Independent groups

  20. What key variable was manipulated alongside environmental context in Godden and Baddeley's procedure?

    • Light and dark
    • Land and water
    • Noise and silence
    • Day and night

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