Misinformation Effect

What is a question that is phrased in a way so it guides the responder towards a particular answer?

• Loaded question

• Misguided question

• Leading question

• Lost question

What researcher was one of the first to study schema and he used a Native American story in some of his studies?

• Loftus

• Bartlett

• Palmer

• Stone

What were the five verbs in Loftus and Plamer's (1974) experiment?

• smashed, contacted, hit, bumped, collded

• smashed, grazed, hit, touched, collided

• smashed, rear-ended, hit, collided, bumped

• smashed, approached, hit, collided, contacted

What is the name of the cognitive bias of focusing and remembering information that is consistent with existing schema?

• Collective bias

• Consistency bias

• Concentrated bias

• Confirmation bias

Stereotypes are a type of what kind of schema?

• Script

• Satiricle

• Sound

• Social

According to Schema Theory, the function of schema is

• to improve comprehension of new information

• to save cognitive energy

• to allow generalizations of people and events

• to create expectations

• all of the answer choices are correct

How could schema influence behavior?

• It could lead to confirmation bias.

• It could lead to the formation of stereotypes.

• It could improve comprehension.

• All of the answer choices are accurate.

How might stereotypes influence behavior?

• It could lead to discriminatory actions.

• It could lead to confirmation bias.

• It could lead to hindsight bias.

• It could lead to conflict resolution.

What study shows that schemas help us comprehend new information because they allow us to relate new information to existing schema.

• Basketball study - Stone et al.

• Misinformation effect - Loftus and Palmer

• Laundry study - Bransford and Johnson

• War of Ghosts study - Bartlett

What is it called when you alter information during recall so that it is consistent with your existing schema?

• Realization

• Rationalization

• Reconstruction

• Recommendation