Cognitive Psychology Questions
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Juan returns to his grandparents house after a 10-year absence. The flood of memories about his childhood visits it is best explained by wishing the following?a. Recallb. Primingc. Explicitd. The serial position effecte. Flashbulb memory
Which of the following is mosts likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words?a. Thinking about how the words relate to your own lifeb. Practicing the words for a single extended periodc. Breaking up the practice into several relatively short sessionsd. Noticing where in a sentence the words appeare. Focusing on the number of vowels and consonants in the words
Which of the following is an example of proactive interference? a. You can't recall your locker combination from sixth grade because your current locker combination interferes.b. You can't recall your new cell phone number because your old number interferes.c. You can't recall what you studied in first period because what you studied in fourth period interferes.d. You can't recall what you studied on Monday because what you studied on Tuesday interferes. e. You can't recall who won the state swim meet last year because the winner of this year's meet interferes.
What does Hermann Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve show about the nature of storage decay?a. The rate of forgetting increases as time goes on.b. The rate of forgetting decreases as time goes on.c. The rate of forgetting does not change as time goes on. d. The rate of forgetting varies according to the motivation of the learner.e. The rate of forgetting varies according to the emotional state of the learner.
What two parts of the brain are most involved in explicit memory?a. Frontal lobes and basal gangliab. Amygdala and hippocampusc. Amygdala and cerebellumd. Cerebellum and basal gangliae. Frontal lobes and hippocampus
Muhammad's been in his school cafeteria hundreds of times. It is a large room, and there are nine freestanding pillars to support the roof. One day, to illustrate the nature of forgetting, Muhammad's teacher asks him how many pillars there are in the cafeteria. Muhammad has difficulty answering the question, but finally replies that he thinks there are six pillars. What memory concept does this example illustrate?a. Storage decayb. Retrograde amnesiac. Proactive interferenced. Retroactive interferencee. Encoding failure
Which of the following best describes explicit memories?a. accessed without conscious recallb. Nondeclarativec. Processed by the cerebellum d. Acquired through classical conditioninge. The result of effortful processing
The text discusses therapist-guided "recovered" memories. Which of the following statements represents an appropriate conclusion about this issue?a. Therapists who use hypnosis are likely to help their patients retrieve repressed memories.b. Statistics indicate that architectural abuse rarely occurs; therefore, recovered memories of such abuse must be false.c. Memories are only rarely recovered; once you are unable to retrieve a memory you will probably never be able to retrieve it.d. One indicator of whether a recovered memory is true is the patient's emotional response; only true recovered memories are emotionally upsetting.e. Since the brain is not sufficiently mature to store accurate memories of events before the age of 3, memories from the first 3 years of life are not reliable.
Working memory is most active during which portion of the information-processing model?a. Short-term memoryb. Sensory memoryc. Retrieval d. Encoding e. Long-term memory
Your memory of which of the following is an example of implicit memory?a. What you had for breakfast yesterdayb. The need to spend some time reviewing tomorrow for an upcoming psychology quizc. Which way to turn the car key to start the engined. That George Washington was the first Presidente. How exciting it was to get the best birthday present ever
Which of the following is the most accurate description of the capacity of short-term and working memory?a. Lasts for about 2 days in most circumstancesb. Lasts for less than half a minute unless you rehearse the informationc. Is thought to be unlimited---there is always room for more informationd. Can handle about half a dozen items for each of the tasks you are working on at any timee. Can handle about a half dozen items total
What is an example of complex and abstract concepts?
How is systematic processing used to solve problems?
Do psychologists agree with the basic nature of intelligence?
How many items can short term memory hold?
What part of the brain is responsible for organizing long term memory?
Q. A study into short-term memory presented participants with strings of items (e.g, letters or numbers) which they had to repeat back immediately in the correct order. The number of items in each string increased with each trial. What was this study examining?
The amount of information which can be held in a memory store is called its:
Q. A study which presented grids of letters very briefly to people (for 50ms) found that people can see more letters than they can report. What does this indicate about memory?
Q. In an experiment people heard a list of three-letter strings (e.g, ABC). They were prevented from rehearsing these by counting backwards for a while (up to 18 seconds). It was found that people could correctly recall less than 10% of the letter strings after 18 seconds. What does this finding indicate?