Support for false memory

1. Roediger and McDermott's (1989) study provides support for false memory. Paragraph 1: How did Roediger and McDermott show evidence for false memory in recognition, using Deese's paradigm? (Hint: focus on Experiment 1, Table 1, and make sure to define all terms, such as 'critical lure' in your own words). Paragraph 2: Roediger and McDermott (1989) found that completing a recall task before a recognition task, elicited higher false memory for the critical lure on the recognition task. How do they explain why this finding occurred? Paragraph 3: How might Roediger and McDermott's (1989) study apply to a real-life situation? Make sure to use an example and explain your reasoning. 2. With respect to categorization, please address the following. Paragraph 1: What is the classical view of categorization? (Make sure to use and to explain the terms individually necessary and jointly sufficient in your definition). Paragraph 2: Illustrate why the classical view could apply to a geometrical square but not to the categorization of gender (Hint: Show how it fails to "objectively" capture either the category -man" or the category "woman"). Paragraph 3: Define psychological essentialism in your own words (be brief!). Then, use psychological essentialism to explain Prentice and Miller's (2006) finding that in a female-male dyad, telling a woman (out loud) that she is an over-estimator while informing the man (out loud) that he is an under-estimator, resulted in failure to correct one's performance the second time around. 3. The Wason Selection Task (WST) has been used as a major task for examining people's deductive reasoning. Paragraph 1: Define Cosmides' Social Contract/Social Exchange theory (include the cost-benefit rule and detection of cheaters' mechanism). Paragraph 2: Make a critique of this work (i.e., discuss a major problem with Cosmides' work). Paragraph 3: How did Gigerenzer and Hug use perspective effects to create a more elegant experimental design that supports Cosmides' theory? 4. Confirmation Bias is prevalent in the laboratory and in everyday life. Paragraph 1: Provide a definition of confirmation bias in your own words. Paragraph 2: Illustrate confirmation bias using Wason's 2-4-6 task Make sure to show how the hypothesized rule is nested within the correct rule in the original version of Wason's 2-4-6 task Paragraph 3: Discuss and demonstrate the circumstances (Hint : Think of a different correct rule) on Wason's 2-4-6 task in which using a triple that is an instance of the hypothesized rule can lead to a disconfirmation of the hypothesized rule.                                                                  

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