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Cognitive Psychology Questions and Answers

Using two South African languages as examples, explain the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in terms of how depression is understood and experienced in South Africa.

What is the duration and capacity of sensory, short-term, and working memories?  

Which memory system would be important for everyday life?

What are the different types of memory systems in long-term memory?

Define intelligence as it relates to cognitive psychology.  

What biological factors impact storing and retrieving information in long-term memory?

How would I create a mnemonic device to help someone remember the following information? Recognized breeds of hound dogs: Afghan hound, basset hound, black and tan coonhound, bloodhound, foxhound, greyhound, Ibizan hound, Irish wolfhound, elkhound, pharaoh hound, and Scottish deerhound

What are the reasons for you to forget or fail to remember important information?  

What are comparable computer systems to sensory and long-term memory?

What are some possible objectives of an employee training course on memory?

Is our brain just a very complex computer (stimulus-response machine) or are we more than just the sum of our nervous system?

What are the reasons to misremember information?  

What would be the most effective way to develop skills to discern relevant from irrelevant information?

What would be the most effective way to develop skills to be able to simplify complex information?

What aspect of memory would most professionals  not intuitively know about?

Would a computer which understood the denotations of all utterances be able to understand intentions and tone?

What impact does alcohol have on the different aspects of cognitive performance?  

Discuss the components of speech that would be the most difficult to program and subsequently interpret.

Would a computer have difficulty understanding the more complex aspects of speech, that is, speech components that create mood or tone?

Is much of our subjective interpretation of meaning based on understanding exactly what the person said or how the person said it?

Please review an array of memory strategies that young children typically use.

What would be the most effective way to develop cognitive flexibility skills?

What would be the most effective way for an expert in applied arts to develop creative problem-solving skills?

As it relates to cognitive psychology is intelligence the single best predictor of success? Why or why not?

As it relates to cognitive psychology, are there multiple types of intelligence or just one unifying type of intelligence?

What sub-systems of memory are universal enough to be used in most professional settings?

What aspect of memory would be interest to a broad professional audience?