PSYC Questions

Each one is answered separately. Not a paper*

Describe the difference between normal forgetting and anterograde amnesia.

For what reasons might eyewitness testimony be unreliable?

How do mnemonics help us to remember? Would they be more useful in remembering the names of the planets or their sizes? Briefly explain your answer.

What does the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon illustrate about metacognition?

Use evidence about spatial cognition (spatial memory) to explain how you know where you are right now.

If the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity were true, would some languages be mutually untranslatable? Explain your answer.