Exam 3 Quizzes

basic

According to Rosch, the ___________ level of categories reflects people's everyday experience.

Making a connection between each word and something you've previously learned

According to the levels of processing theory, which of the following tasks will produce the best long-term memory for a set of words?

items that are high in prototypicality are judged more rapidly as being in a group.

According to the typicality effect

constructive nature of memory.

Bartlett's experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the "War of the Ghosts" story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the

spreading activation

Collins and Quillian explained the results of priming experiments by introducing the concept of ___________ into their network model.

repeating it over and over.

Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by

Winning the first grade spelling bee

Ellen is 52 years old. Which of the following experiences has most likely faded from her memory?

It is memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event that remains especially vivid but not necessarily accurate over time

Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?

generation effect.

In Slameka and Graf's (1978) study, some participants read word pairs, while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The latter group performed better on a later memory task, illustrating the

cultural expectations

In the "War of the Ghosts" experiment, participants' reproductions contained inaccuracies based on

node.

In the semantic network model, a specific category or concept is represented at a

Survival

James Nairne would say that effective encoding of memory is based on which of the following?

connection weights.

Learning in the connectionist network is represented by adjustments to network

repressed

Memories of the past that have been pushed out of a person's consciousness are considered to be ________.

short and across several days.

According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are

constructive

According to the ______ approach to memory, what people report as memories is based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge, experiences, and expectations.

damage to the system does not completely disrupt its operation

One beneficial property of connectionist networks is graceful degradation, which refers to the property that

facilitates the response to another stimulus that usually follows closely in time.

Priming occurs when presentation of one stimulus

highlighting

Research shows that ___________ does not improve reading comprehension because it does not encourage elaborative processing of the material.

the presence of a weapon hinders memory for other parts of the event

Stanny and Johnson's "weapons focus" experiment, investigating memory for crime scenes, found that

Location

The concept of encoding specificity is grounded in which of the following?

distributed

The four proposals addressing the representation of concepts in the brain all agree that the information is ________.

specificity

The principle that we encode information together with its context is known as encoding

cryptoamnesia

Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as

Scale

What is the key difference between synaptic consolidation and systems consolidation?

Exemplar

Which approach to categorization can more easily take into account atypical cases such as flightless birds?

Repetition

Which of the following is key to the illusory truth effect?

Engagement

Which of the following provides the key benefit to the generate-and-test study strategy?

Pragmatic inference

__________ occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the sentence.

A prototype

___________is a "typical" member of a category.