Cognition Test 2
In general, memory is better after __________ practice than __________ practice.
distributed; massed
An abstract central core of a mental category is a(n) __________.
prototype
The idea that people treat members of a category as if they had some shared common underlying quality is __________
psychological essentialism
Metamemory is_________.
awareness of one's own memory contents and processes
Which part of the working memory system is responsible for regulating the flow of information?
central executive
Semantic memories generally convey __________.
general world knowledge
Semantic memory is memory for __________.
general world knowledge
The isolation effect is __________
improved memory for one piece of evidence that has been made distinct or different
Information that is stored and processed in the phonological loop is most likely
in a verbal/acoustic memory code
At this point, it seems that the most likely explanation for forgetting in short-term memory is
interference
Which of the following is not a component of Baddeley's working memory model?
long term memory
Episodic memories generally convey __________.
personally experienced events
Mental categories allow us to __________.
predict the ways in which we should interact with new instances
Loftus and Palmer's (1974) research showed that eyewitness reports varied as a function of the wording of a question. This suggests that __________.
semantic memory knowledge biases how we remember events
Better memory for items at the beginning and end of a list is called the
serial position curve