SECTION A
1) Give a short account of TWO of the following:
a) Change blindness
b) Covert orienting
c) Theories of colour perception
d) The difference between the prototype effect and the exemplar effect
2) Write an essay to answer ONE of the following questions:
a) Describe the major assumptions of the Cohort Model of word
comprehension. Describe evidence in favour of the model.
b) What is perceptual constancy? How is it achieved and why is it
necessary?
SECTION B
3) Give a short account of TWO of the following:
a) The utility of Milgram’s experiments
b) The halo effect
c) Conformity
d) Gain-loss theory
4) Write an essay to answer ONE of the following questions:
a) What attribution biases do people make, and why?
b) How can attitudes be changed?
SECTION C
5) Give a short account of TWO of the following:
a) The thematic facilitation effect
b) Cognitive models of depression
c) Reliability and validity of IQ tests
d) Genetics of schizophrenia
6) Write an essay to answer ONE of the following questions:
a) To what extent are treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder related
to cognitive models of the disorder?
b) Could the heritability of IQ realistically ever be zero?