Psychology Final Exam
Terrell volunteers his time to campaign for Joel Goodman. He spent all afternoon putting up "Goodman for Congress" signs around his town and arrived back at headquarters just in time to watch the Goodman- Hernandez debate on TV. Terrell was eager to watch the candidates debate each other, even though he was 100 percent sure he was going to vote for Goodman. Terrell's first response to the debate will most likely be
"Goodman answered the question on job creation very well."
When Javier talks about last night's basketball game with his friend Carol over coffee, which of the following internal thoughts reflect Javier's working memory?
"The game was close and exciting."
As a result of gaps in the behaviorist paradigm, the new cognitive paradigm began to emerge in which decade?
1950s
You studied a lot of information to ace this test. According to Ebbinghaus, when will the rate at which you begin to forget the information begin to level off?
2 days
One hundred students are enrolled in State University's course on introductory physics for math and science majors. In the group, 60 students are math majors and 40 are science majors. Sarah is in the class. She got all As in her high school science courses, and she would like to be a chemist someday. She lives on campus. Her boyfriend is also in the class. There is a _________________ chance that Sarah is a science major.
40 percent
According to Miller, which of the following would be the shortest password that a person would have difficulty remembering?
4LP91DMG
The rule of the Wason four-card problem is, "If there is a vowel on one side, then there is an even number on the other side." Let's say you are presented with A, 8, M, and 13, each showing on one of four cards. To see if the rule is valid, you would have to turn over the cards showing
A and 13
Which example below best demonstrates state-dependent learning?
Although Emily doesn't very often think about her first love, Steve, she can't help getting caught up in happy memories when "their song" (the first song they danced to) plays on the radio.
Which statement below is NOT true, based on the results of memory research?
Although eyewitness testimony is often faulty, people who have just viewed a videotape of a crime are quite accurate at picking the "perpetrator" from a lineup.
What does the field of neuropsychology study?
Behavior of people with brain damage
Which of the following statements does NOT apply to the results of research on differences between how experts and novices solve problems?
Being an expert in one field can transfer to better problem solving in another field.
Nick has perfected the skill of tuning out his mother's lectures about cleaning his room while still being able to text his friends and listen to music. What concept is Nick displaying?
Broadbent's filter
Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored, often with jumbled sentence structure. Josiah may have damage to which area of the brain?
Broca's area
Which property below is NOT one of the characteristics that makes human language unique?
Communication
Which statement below is most closely associated with levels of processing theory?
Deep processing involves paying closer attention to a stimulus than shallow processing and results in better processing.
Which of the following does NOT reflect the System 1 approach to thinking as proposed by Kahneman?
Deliberate
Which of the following is a key factor in the memory-enhancing capacity of sleep?
Distraction
Which one of these early pioneers in cognitive psychology was the first to undertake quantitative measurements of mental processes?
Ebbinghaus
How would you describe the relationship between elaborative rehearsal and maintenance rehearsal in terms of establishing long-term memories?
Elaborative is more effective than maintenance
Paivio (1963) proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis. His work suggests which of the following would be most difficult to remember?
Freedom
Harry is creating a chart that compares the four perspectives on object perception. Which perspective should Harry place under the "Bottom-Up" heading on his chart?
Gestalt principles
Ronnie told his friend Sasha, "Last Thursday when it got below freezing and the roads were icy, I went to that new sushi place on Rte 38 for the $12.99 all-you-can-eat special." Which part of Ronnie's autobiographical memory is episodic?
I had dinner at the sushi place.
Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, Harry believes that drinking dandelion tea would improve his long-term memory because he saw several news stories and articles about it online. What is Harry experiencing?
Illusory truth effect
Which of the following illustrates how we can miss things even if they are clearly visible?
Inattentional blindness
________ occurs when a person gives up trying to solve a tough problem and then suddenly comes up with the answer while doing something else.
Incubation
Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?
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.
___ founded behaviorism which ___ the study of inner mental processes.
John Watson; rejected
Katie and Alana are roommates taking the same psychology class. They have a test in four days during a 10:00-11:00 AM class period. Both women intend to study for three hours, but because of different work schedules, Katie will study one hour for each of the next three days, while Alana will study three hours the day before the exam. What could you predict about their performances?
Katie should perform better because of the spacing effect.
Lakeisha and Kim have been studying for two hours for their chemistry exam. Both girls are tired of studying. Lakeisha decides to watch a two-hour movie on DVD, while Kim decides to go to bed. What would you predict about their performance on the chemistry exam?
Kim performs better because of consolidation.
What is a scene schema?
Knowledge of what a scene typically contains
Yoda, a central character of the Star Wars movies created by George Lucas, has a distinctive way of speaking. His statement, "Afraid you will be," violates which property of the English language?
Language has a structure that is governed by rules.
The concept of encoding specificity is grounded in which of the following?
Location
Lydia is 48 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy as an undergraduate. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and she participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Which of the following alternatives is most probable?
Lydia is a U.S. Congresswoman
According to the levels of processing theory, which of the following tasks will produce the best long-term memory for a set of words?
Making a connection between each word and something you've previously learned
The phrase "You just hear what you want to hear" best reflects which of the following concepts?
Myside bias
Which substance is released when signals reach the synapse at the end of the axon?
Neurotransmitters
What is a key difference between dendrites and axons?
One sends information and the other receives information.
Which of the following statements is accurate?
Perception is the basis for all human cognition.
Which of the following representation types is associated with abstract concepts?
Propositional
Which of the following is key to the illusory truth effect?
Repetition.
___________ cues help us remember information that has been stored in memory.
Retrieval
Which of the following is NOT a factor in prosody?
Semantics
Which of the following scenarios best illustrates how effective or ineffective maintenance rehearsal is in transferring information into long-term memory?
Serena's keys were stolen from her purse. She cannot give a detailed description of her keychain to the police, even though she used it every day for three years
Who developed a test that demonstrates the distractive power of some task-irrelevant stimuli?
Stroop
Consider the following argument: Observation: Here in Nashville, the sun has risen every morning. Conclusion: The sun is going to rise in Nashville tomorrow.
The argument is strong because there are a large number of observations.
Why does counting backwards after reciting a list of words eliminate the recency effect?
The last words are lost in short-term memory (STM).
Suppose a subject began recall of a list of words after counting backwards for 30 seconds. What would be the likely consequence of doing this?
The recency effect is eliminated.
Imagine yourself walking from your car, bus stop, or dorm to your first class. Your ability to form such a picture in your mind depends on which of the following components of working memory?
The visuospatial sketch pad
Which of the following is a basic principle of Gestalt psychology?
The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the following examples?
When someone accurately identifies a word in a song on a radio broadcast despite static interfering with reception
Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany?
Wilhelm Wundt
Lamar has just gotten a new job and is attending a company party where he will meet his colleagues for the first time. His boss escorts him around to small groups to introduce him. At the first group, Lamar meets four people and is told only their first names. The same thing happens with a second group and a third group. At the fourth group, Lamar is told their names and that one of the women in the group is the company accountant. A little while later, Lamar realizes that he only remembers the names of the people in the first group, though he also remembers the profession of the last woman he met (the accountant). Lamar's experience demonstrates
a build-up and release of proactive interference.
Suppose we asked people to form simultaneous images of two or more animals such as a rabbit alongside an elephant. Then, we ask them basic questions about the animals. For example, we might ask if the rabbit has whiskers. Given our knowledge of imagery research, we would expect the fastest response to this question when the rabbit is imagined alongside
a bumblebee.
An animal might learn how to navigate a maze through the use of ___.
a cognitive map
Marisol was pleasantly surprised when she walked into the hospital to visit her father and saw an espresso bar and a four-piece jazz quartet playing. What caused Marisol's response?
a deviation from her scene schema
Which of the following will likely NOT advance beyond sensory memory?
a firefly's glow
Amber lives in a housing development between two parallel streets that both connect to a freeway. She usually takes the street to the south when heading southbound on the freeway to work, but that street is closed for repairs for three months. Amber takes the street to the north during that time. After the street to the south is re-opened, she continues to take the street to the north, even though it is a slightly longer route. Continuing to take the street to the north represents
a mental set
A script is a type of schema that also includes knowledge of
a sequence of actions.
Which of the following would be an example of auditory coding in long-term memory?
a song you have heard many times before, repeating over and over in your mind
Which of the following would be LEAST likely to be part of a scene schema for a college classroom?
a stove
Which of the following memories would NOT be an example of long-term memory?
acknowledging that you just sat down
For most adults over age 40, the reminiscence bump describes enhanced memory for
adolescence and young adulthood.
The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented
after the event.
Mia has lived in New York City all her life. She has noticed that people from upper Manhattan walk really fast, but people from lower Manhattan tend to walk slowly. Mia's observations are likely influenced from a judgment error based on her using
an illusory correlation
Although each frame of the film has an image of people in a raft on water, the audience in the movie theater sees a group of people paddling and traveling down a swift rushing river. From a Gestalt perspective, the movement of the people and water is ________.
apparent motion
A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look away, and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying
articulatory suppression.
While George takes the bus home, he is thinking about how to resolve a difficult issue at work. This is an example of the mind ___.
as a problem solver
Suppose that, as a participant in an imagery study, you are asked to memorize the four outside walls of a three-story rectangular house. Later, you are asked to report how many windows are on the front of the house. You will probably be fastest to answer this question if you create an image as though you were standing
at the far side of the front yard, away from the house.
According to Baddeley, the central executive controls ________.
attention
Peter was so stressed about his presentation tomorrow that he was surprised to find himself pulling into his driveway after work. He didn't remember one bit of what is usually a nasty commute on packed roads. What enabled Peter to make it home safely?
automatic processing
Donte purchased a new car, a Ford Mustang, less than a month ago. While sitting in traffic, Donte says to his girlfriend, "Mustangs must be the best-selling car now. I can't remember seeing as many on the road as I have recently." Donte's judgment is most likely biased by a(n)
availability heuristic
The finding that people tend to incorrectly conclude that more people die from tornados than from asthma has been explained in terms of the
availability heuristic
Wally and Shamika are out on a date. When Shamika asks where they should go for dinner, Wally says, "My coworkers keep telling me about that new Japanese place downtown, so it must be a great place to eat." Wally's response illustrates the use of a(n)
availability heuristic
Explicit memory is to ___________ as implicit memory is to ___________.
aware; unaware
Action potentials occur in the
axon
Why did Ebbinghaus study memory for nonsense syllables?
because nonsense syllables have no inherent meaning
Primacy effect is to recency effect as ___ is to ___.
beginning; end
The tendency to think that a syllogism is valid if its conclusion is believable is called the _________________.
belief bias
The conceptual peg hypothesis would predict enhanced memory for which word pair?
cake mug
For decades, children waiting to see the dentist have done a familiar challenge in Highlights magazine. They compare two illustrations that look almost identical and try to identify 15 things that are different. What are the children engaging in?
change detection
By listing numbers as (212) 555-1234, telephone companies use which technique to help people remember their own and others' phone numbers?
chunking
Attention, perception, memory, and decision making are all different types of mental processes in which the mind engages. These are known as different types of
cognition
The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as
cognitive neuroscience.
What distinguishes working memory from short-term memory?
complexity
If a motorcycle cop believes that young female drivers speed more than other drivers, he will likely notice young female drivers speeding in the fast lane but fail to notice young male or older drivers doing the same. In this case, the police officer's judgments are skewed by the operation of the
confirmation bias.
Suppose someone has told you a phone number, and you're repeating it over and over again to yourself with the hope that you'll remember it before you dial the number. This example is a type of a ___ called ___.
control process; rehearsal
Perception is to memory as _____ is to _____.
create; retrieve
Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as
cryptoamnesia
An experiment measures participants' performance in judging syllogisms. Two premises and a conclusion are presented as stimuli, and participants are asked to indicate (yes or no) if the conclusion logically follows from the premises. Error rates are then calculated for each syllogism. This experiment studies _________________ reasoning.
deductive
Metcalfe and Wiebe gave participants problems to solve and asked them to make "warmth" judgments every 15 seconds to indicate how close they felt they were to a solution. The purpose of this experiment was to
demonstrate a difference between how people solve insight and non-insight problems.
Which of the following acts like a radio antenna in a car?
dendrite
Which component of Broadbent's model of attention is focused on the meaning of a stimulus?
detector
Which of the following likely led early telephone companies to create phone numbers using the format 213-555-1234 rather than a format such as 21776-551873-0633295?
digit span
Suppose you're studying in the library and you hear someone else's cell phone conversation, which, in turn, causes you to lose your focus on your work. This example illustrates ___.
distraction
Ali works for Citrus Squeeze, a company that makes orange juice. Sales of their calcium-enhanced OJ have been poor, and the product was cancelled. His factory still had three cases of cartons, and Ali was told he could take them if he wanted them. With the cartons, Ali made several birdfeeders for his backyard and also planted tree seedlings in some of them; he used the remaining ones to build a "fort" for his four-year-old son. Ali's use of the cartons represents
divergent thinking
Yvonne is attempting to listen to a conversation from her friend while simultaneously being alert for an expected cell phone call. This example illustrates ___.
divided attention
Low-load tasks are to high-load tasks as _____ is to _____.
easy; difficult
Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is
encoding
People often report an annoying memory failure when they walk from one end of the house to the other for something and then forget what they wanted when they reach their destination. As soon as they return to the first room, they are reminded of what they wanted in the first place. This common experience best illustrates the principle of
encoding specificity.
If you are thinking about experiences about a previous vacation, then you are most likely making use of ___ memories.
episodic
Suppose you recall that you had a pleasant conversation with a cashier the other day when you went to get coffee. This memory should be viewed as primarily being ___.
episodic
Remembering a fun family trip to the beach when you were six years old requires recalling a(n) ________ memory from ________ memory.
episodic; long-term
Lindsay's misinformation effect experiment, in which participants were given a memory test about a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer, showed that participants are influenced by misleading post-event information
even if they are told to ignore the post-event information.
Which term best reflects the aspect of memory that people lose with age?
experience
A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that
extreme vividness of a memory does not mean it is accurate.
Which of the following is the key factor in the cocktail party effect?
filter
Which of the following would play a key role in research on the physiology of cognition?
functional magnetic resonance imaging
Greta suffers from prosopagnosia. As such, we would expect her to ___.
have an inability to recognize faces
There are two gumball machines outside the local grocery store, one large machine and one small machine. Both machines have only yellow and orange gumballs, and each machine contains 50 percent of each color. For each coin, the large gumball machine dispenses 15 gumballs, while the small machine dispenses 5. Tim is a young genius whose interests include probability and sound decision-making. His "probability project of the day" is to get a greater percentage of either of the colors, but not an equal amount of each color. Given this, and presuming Tim has only one coin,
he should use his coin in the small machine.
Driving in the dense fog, Sandeep could only see rows of large, white rectangles up ahead. As he got closer, he could make out that the rectangles were lighted windows in his hotel. Which term best describes what Sandeep experienced?
hierarchical processing
Research shows that ___________ does not improve reading comprehension because it does not encourage elaborative processing of the material.
highlighting
Noam Chomsky proposed that
humans are genetically programmed to acquire and use language
Which of the following terms best reflects the concept of cognition?
ideas
Shepard and Metzler's "image rotation" experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated
imagery and perception may share the same mechanisms.
According to your text, imagery enhances memory because
imagery can be used to create connections between items to be remembered.
Bonnie has ordered her monthly supply of medicines through the mail for the past five years. Except for one order, all orders have arrived within two business days. Bonnie placed an order yesterday, and she expects to receive her order tomorrow. Bonnie is using
inductive reasoning
Which of the following has become one of the dominant approaches in contemporary psychology?
information processing
In the two-string problem, tying the pliers to one of the strings best represents a(n) _________________ state.
intermediate
Consider the following conditional syllogism: Premise 1: If I don't eat lunch today, I will be hungry tonight. Premise 2: I ate lunch today. Conclusion: Therefore, I wasn't hungry tonight. This syllogism is
invalid
The "imagery debate" is concerned with whether imagery
is based on spatial or language mechanisms.
Semantic memory is to ________ as episodic memory is to ________.
knowing; remembering
Lilo can't wait for school to start. This year is the first time she gets to take a foreign language class, and she is taking Japanese. Dr. Nabuto is a professor interested in studying how people learn additional languages later in life, and he is including Lilo's class in his research. Dr. Nabuto is most likely studying
language acquisition
Ron is an avid reader. He has a large vocabulary because every time he comes across a word he doesn't know, he looks it up in the dictionary. Ron encounters "wanderlust" in a novel, reaches for the dictionary, and finds out this word means "desire to travel." The process of looking up unfamiliar words increases Ron's
lexicon
As Latoya sat down to take her final exam in European History, what did she draw upon to answer the 100 questions?
long-term memory
Shepard and Metzler measured the time it took for participants to decide whether two objects were the same (two different views of the same object) or different (two different objects). These researchers inferred cognitive processes by using
mental chronometry.
Kosslyn's island experiment used the ___________ procedure.
mental scanning
Moving around an object enhances our perception of it due to which of the following?
multiple views
Which of the following types of exam questions is an example of recognition memory?
multiple-choice
Your text describes imagery performance of a patient with unilateral neglect. This patient was asked to imagine himself standing at one end of a familiar plaza and to report the objects he saw. His behavior shows
neglect always occurred on the left side of the image, with "left side" being determined by the direction in which the patient imagined he was positioned.
The use of positron emission tomography enables psychological research to get down to the level of _____.
neurons
What is the upper limit for holding information in long-term memory?
no limit
Functional fixedness would be LOWEST for a(n)
novel object
If you're having problems with your vision, then it's likely that there could be a problem with your ___ lobe.
occipital
Joe and Meg are doing a study in psychology. Joe is asked to push a button as soon as he sees a red light, whereas Meg is asked to push a red button if she sees a red light and a green button if she sees a green light. From the information, who appear(s) to be involved in a task measuring choice reaction time?
only Meg
Actions that take the problem from one state to another are known as
operators
The elements of the problem space include all of the following EXCEPT
operators
The brain is constantly changing in response to various experiences due to its ________.
plasticity
Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex
plays a causal role in both perception and imagery.
Within the realm of conversational speech, knowledge refers to the
previously understood information that we bring into the conversation.
Political propaganda is an effective tool to manage and control the public due to the effect of ________.
priming
When you just ride a bike without consciously thinking about how to do so, this illustrates ___ memory.
procedural
Celia loved to knit when she was a young girl, but she hadn't done it in years. So she was excited when she joined a group making blankets for homeless kids and started knitting like she had just done it yesterday. What did Celia access to start knitting again?
procedural memory
One of Chomsky's most persuasive arguments for refuting Skinner's theory of language acquisition was his observation that children
produce sentences they have never heard.
The maintenance rehearsal task of learning a word by repeating it over and over again is most likely to
produce some short-term remembering, but fail to produce longer-term memories.
Ty has finished work on his doctoral dissertation. He studied how most adults understand words, specifically the priming effects of categorically related words, and submitted a proposal to be included in a psychological conference to present his work to his peers. Presentations at the conference are grouped based on the particular topic in psychology under consideration. It is most likely that Ty's work will be presented in a conference session on
psycholinguistics.
If the intensity of a stimulus that is presented to a touch receptor is increased, this tends to increase the __________ in the receptor's axon.
rate of nerve firing
Neurons in the skin that detect a spider crawling up your leg are called ________.
receptors
When the police ask the victim of a crime to look through mugshots of past criminals, they hope that the victim's ________ will help them to identify and arrest a suspect.
recognition
You have been studying for weeks for a nursing school entrance exam. You love the idea of becoming a nurse, and you have been enjoying learning about the material for your exam. Each night, you put on comfortable clothes and study in the quiet of your lovely home. Memory research suggests you should take your test with a(n) ________ mindset.
relaxed.
Gestalt psychologists consider problem solving as a process involving
reorganization or restructuring.
Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by
repeating it over and over.
Memories of the past that have been pushed out of a person's consciousness are considered to be ________.
repressed
The value that stays the same as long as there are no signals in the neuron is known as
resting potential.
Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago, can be stimulated by locations, songs, and smells highlight the importance of ___________ in long-term memory.
retrieval cues
In the context of language, another term for "heuristics" is ________.
rules
Syntax is
rules for combining words into sentences.
Because Robbie will be late to the big outdoor concert, he tells Serena to wear that ugly lime green top. This will increase Serena's ________ so Robbie can find her in the crowd.
salience
Imagine that your friend James has just taken up the habit of smoking cigars because he thinks it makes him look cool. You are concerned about the detrimental effects of smoking on his health, and you raise that concern to him. James gets a bit annoyed with your criticism and says, "My grandfather smoked cigars, and he lived to be 100!" You might point out that a major problem with his argument involves
sample size
Your friend has been sick for several days, so you go over to her home to make her some chicken soup. Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen
schema
In the experiment in which participants sat in an office and then were asked to remember what they saw in the office, participants "remembered" some things, like books, that weren't actually there. This experiment illustrates the effect of __________ on memory.
schemas
The water-jug problem demonstrates that one consequence of having a procedure that does provide a solution to a problem is that, if well-learned, it may prevent us from
seeing more efficient solutions to the problem.
Suppose you're at a loud party where you're trying really hard to listen to a conversation that you're having with a friend. In doing so, you're showing ___.
selective attention
All of the following illustrate implicit memory EXCEPT ___.
semantic knowledge
The trail left by a moving sparkler is an example of the ___ at work.
sensory memory
According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are
short and across several days.
According to Broadbent, where does the process of rehearsal take place?
short-term memory
Which of the following deserves credit for the recency effect?
short-term memory (STM)
Fundamentally, the principle of good figure emphasizes ___ in perception.
simplicity
The Gestalt principle of pragnanz is focused on which of the following concepts?
simplicity
The word frequency effect refers to the fact that we respond more
slowly to low-frequency words than high-frequency words.
According to the phonological similarity effect, we're more likely to confuse words or letters that ___ similar. For example, "F" is more likely to be misidentified as ___.
sound; "S"
A mental rotation task is focused on the ________ aspect of imagery.
spatial
The fact that certain neurons might respond only to your mother's face but not your father's face highlights the importance of ___.
specificity coding
Given that Betty is fluent in Spanish, she can tell when one word ends and the next one begins. This illustrates ___.
speech segmentation
Which of the following components of neural function is distinguished by being an absence of material?
synapse
Experts _________________ than novices.
take a more effective approach to organizing the solution to a problem
Jenkins and Russell (1952) presented a list of words like "chair, apple, dish, shoe, cherry, sofa" to participants. In a test, participants recalled the words in a different order than the order in which they were originally presented. This result occurred because of the
tendency of objects in the same category to become organized.
Illustrative of functional fixedness, people are more likely to solve the candle problem if
the box is empty
A syllogism is valid if
the conclusion follows logically from the two premises
Stereotypes are reinforced by all of the following EXCEPT
the falsification principle
According to your text, the key to solving the Wason four-card problem is
the falsification principle.
Broadbent's model is called the early selection model because
the filter eliminates the unattended information right at the beginning of the flow of information.
Cecile has dreamed of owning her own home for years, and she can finally afford a small cottage in an older neighborhood. She notices that she feels more positive about her home when she takes a route on her drive home that goes past the abandoned shacks, but she feels more negative when she takes a route that goes past the mansions with large lawns. Cecile's emotions are influenced by
the framing effect.
A synapse is
the gap that separates two different neurons.
The dramatic case of patient H.M. clearly illustrates that ___________ is crucial for the formation of long-term memories.
the hippocampus
The technique in which things to be remembered are placed at different locations in a mental image of a spatial layout is known as
the method of loci.
Suppose you're shown five rows containing five letters each. You're then told to recall only one row of letters. In doing so, you're utilizing ___.
the partial report method
Stanny and Johnson's "weapons focus" experiment, investigating memory for crime scenes, found that
the presence of a weapon hinders memory for other parts of the event.
The conjunction rule states that
the probability of two events co-occurring is equal to or less than the probability of either event occurring alone
Gabrielle is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive condo. If we judge the probability of Gabrielle's being a model quite high because she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using
the representativeness heuristic
Jeannie loves to dance, having taken ballet for many years. She is now learning salsa dancing. Although the movements are very different from the dances she is familiar with, she has found a successful memory strategy of linking the new dance information to her previous experiences as a dancer and to her own affection for dance. This strategy suggests reliance on
the self-reference effect.
What differentiates bottom-up processing from top-down processing?
the source of information
Insight refers to
the sudden realization of a problem's solution.
Transfer-appropriate processing is likely to occur if
the type of encoding task matches the type of retrieval task.
The lesson to be learned from the imagery techniques for memory enhancement (e.g.,, the pegword technique) is that these techniques work because
they showcase the fact that memory improvement requires a great deal of practice and perseverance.
What is a key function of the phonological loop?
to prevent decay
If a word is identified more easily when it is in a sentence than when it is presented alone, this would be an example of _____ processing.
top-down
Asking people to recall the most influential events that happened during their college careers shows that __________ in people's lives appear to be particularly memorable.
transition points
Which of the following terms does NOT reflect Baddeley and Hitch's concept of working memory?
unlimited
Consider the following syllogism: All cats are birds. All birds have wings. All cats have wings. This syllogism is
valid
The fact that you can recognize your glasses as such from different angles specifically illustrates ___.
viewpoint invariance
Iconic memory is to echoic memory as _____ is to _____.
vision; sound
When you're trying to understand what your professor is talking about in a lecture, which of the following is LEAST important to aid this process?
visuospatial sketch pad
The best description of the purpose of think-aloud protocols is that they are used to determine
what information a person is attending to while solving a problem.
Research on eyewitness testimony reveals that
when viewing a lineup, an eyewitness's confidence in his or her choice of the suspect can be increased by an authority's confirmation of his or her choice, even when the choice is wrong.
According to the predictions of the memory span demonstration, for which of the following types of material should a participant have the shortest memory span?
words
Which of the following should have the lowest threshold for being activated to attention according to Treisman?
your name
