Lesson 3.3.4

3.3.4 Psychology and the courtroom (cognitive) Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 3

20 questions

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Lesson 3.3.4, Psychology and the courtroom (cognitive): 20 multiple choice questions for the OCR Psychology (H567), Unit 3: Applied psychology (Component 03), written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes misleading information received after an event that alters eyewitness memory?

    • Source monitoring
    • Post-event information
    • Flashbulb memory
    • Retroactive encoding

  2. Which cognitive interview component has witnesses recall events in reverse chronological order?

    • Change perspective
    • Mental reinstatement
    • Change order
    • Report everything

  3. In Loftus and Palmer's 1974 study, which verb produced the highest mean speed estimate?

    • Hit
    • Collided
    • Smashed
    • Bumped

  4. What psychological phenomenon causes witnesses to focus on a weapon, reducing facial recognition accuracy?

    • Arousal narrowing
    • Attention shift
    • Tunnel vision
    • Weapon focus effect

  5. Who developed the Cognitive Interview technique to improve police interrogation of eyewitnesses?

    • Gabbert et al.
    • Loftus and Palmer
    • Fisher and Geiselman
    • Valentine and Mesout

  6. What error occurs when an eyewitness correctly remembers a fact but attributes it to the wrong source?

    • Source misattribution
    • Confirmation bias
    • Memory decay
    • Retroactive interference

  7. Which cognitive interview technique asks witnesses to recreate the environmental and emotional context mentally?

    • Scene reconstruction
    • Mental imagery
    • Environmental cueing
    • Context reinstatement

  8. What term describes when co-witnesses discuss a crime and contaminate each other's memories?

    • Normative influence
    • Information pooling
    • Memory conformity
    • Social contagion

  9. Sarah witnesses a theft and later chats with a friend who saw a different version, altering her recall. What is this?

    • Anterograde amnesia
    • Schema assimilation
    • Post-event contamination
    • Proactive interference

  10. During a robbery, a cashier stares intently at a knife held by the suspect, later failing to identify him. What explains this?

    • Weapon focus effect
    • Inattentional blindness
    • Anxiety paralysis
    • Sensory overload

  11. An interviewer asks a traumatised victim to imagine they were viewing the crime from across the street. Which CI technique is this?

    • Context reinstatement
    • Reverse order
    • Change perspective
    • Free recall

  12. Mark recalls seeing a red car at an accident, but police leading questions made him remember a blue car. What phenomenon is shown?

    • Leading question effect
    • Primary reinforcement
    • Halo effect
    • Demand characteristics

  13. A witness remembers a face from a crime scene but mistakenly thinks they saw it on a wanted poster earlier. What is this?

    • False recognition
    • Source misattribution
    • Proactive interference
    • Cryptomnesia

  14. Police instruct a shaken burglary victim to report every single detail, no matter how trivial. Which CI element is used?

    • Exhaustive recall
    • Detailed accounting
    • Report everything
    • Complete disclosure

  15. Two witnesses argue about whether a suspect wore a hat, leading both to alter their original testimonies. What term fits?

    • Memory conformity
    • Suggestibility bias
    • Peer pressure
    • Normative compliance

  16. Why might high anxiety during a violent crime negatively impact the accuracy of eyewitness identification?

    • Impaired encoding
    • Retrieval inhibition
    • Rapid forgetting
    • Storage decay

  17. According to Yerkes-Dodson law, what level of anxiety produces optimal eyewitness memory accuracy?

    • Zero arousal
    • High arousal
    • Moderate arousal
    • Maximum panic

  18. Which psychological factor explains why elderly witnesses may show reduced accuracy in police line-ups?

    • Sensory loss
    • Cognitive decline
    • Memory decay
    • Poor eyesight

  19. What key ethical issue is frequently raised when conducting experimental research on eyewitness trauma?

    • Invasion of privacy
    • Deception issues
    • Psychological harm
    • Lack of consent

  20. Which cognitive interview component instructs witnesses to start their recall from a different point in time?

    • Mental reinstatement
    • Change order
    • Change perspective
    • Report everything

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