Formula sheets, the key method steps for every topic and 8 practice problems, with full solutions at the back.
The cognitive interview is used by police to improve eyewitness recall. Which technique does it include?
A patient with a long history of heavy alcohol use cannot form new memories and fills gaps with invented stories that he believes. This is typical of:
A 5-year-old says a boy who broke 15 cups by accident is naughtier than a boy who broke 1 cup while stealing jam. Piaget called this:
In Vygotsky's theory, private speech in young children is seen as:
The foot-in-the-door technique works by:
A prejudiced person explains an out-group member's kind act as "just luck" or "he was forced to" but explains an out-group member's crime as "that's how they are". This is:
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has best evidence for:
A man says that a famous singer is secretly in love with him and sends him coded messages through her songs. Apart from this, his thinking and behaviour are normal, with no hallucinations. Which diagnosis fits best?
Answer: B · Mentally reinstating the context of the event
The cognitive interview uses context reinstatement, reporting every detail, recalling in different orders and from different perspectives, which increases correct recall.
Answer: A · Korsakoff's syndrome
Korsakoff's syndrome causes severe anterograde amnesia, some retrograde amnesia and confabulation, while procedural learning is often relatively preserved.
Answer: C · Heteronomous morality (moral realism)
Heteronomous children see rules as fixed and judge actions by the amount of damage. Older, autonomous children take intentions into account.
Answer: C · A tool for guiding their own thinking that later becomes inner speech
Vygotsky saw private speech as self-regulating; it gradually becomes silent inner speech. Piaget instead saw it as egocentric.
Answer: B · Getting agreement to a small request before making a larger one
Agreeing to a small request makes people more likely to agree to a later bigger one, possibly because of consistency with their self-image.
Answer: C · The ultimate attribution error
The ultimate attribution error attributes negative out-group behaviour to disposition and positive out-group behaviour to situational causes, maintaining prejudice.
Answer: D · Preventing relapse in people with recurrent depression
MBCT combines mindfulness practice with cognitive therapy. Trials show it reduces relapse in people with three or more previous depressive episodes.
Answer: B · Delusional disorder, erotomanic type
Delusional disorder involves one or more delusions for at least a month without meeting criteria for schizophrenia, and functioning is not markedly impaired apart from the delusion. Erotomanic delusions concern another person being in love with the patient.
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