Cognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology
Lab Exercise with Quizzing
Read the materials, click on the lab exercise links and take the quizzes. Please note these will open in a new window.
Lab Exercise 1: Word-Lists Demonstration
GoCognitive is a website with various demos exploring cognitive processes. Try the DRM procedure. What is the main purpose of this task? Why is it that we misremember or even make up information or an event? What does this indicate about human memory? Are there any other instances when human memory is not perfectly reliable?
Follow-Up Quiz
Lab Exercise 2: Memory Solitaire
The activities in this lab will help you better understand some of your memory processes, especially the often misunderstood short-term memory, memory improvement techniques and problems with eyewitness memory. Click on the link “Ready, set Go” to begin.
Afterwards, write down as many of the things as you can remember on your piece of paper. Next, after you've written down as many things as you can remember, press the Check button below and check your list. How many of the 20 things did you remember?
Next, click the “back” button, scroll down the page below the heading “How can I do better?” and click on the “continue” button and read the “Ways to get better.”
Follow-Up Quiz
Lab Exercise 3: Eyewitness Test
Website of Gary Wells, an Iowa State University professor who has been the leading researcher on eyewitness testimony. Perform the eyewitness testimony task. Were you able to identify the perpetrator? What factors can bias our ability to identify perpetrators? How is this task different from an actual eyewitness-event and testimony?
Follow-Up Quiz