CB T/F Chapter 4
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A declarative network is a network of mental pathways linking knowledge within memory.
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A memory code is the mental path by which some thought becomes active.
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A schema represents a consumer's entire associative network.
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A script is a schema representing an event.
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A social exemplar is the cognitive representation that gives a specific type of person meaning.
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A tag is a small piece of coded information that helps a particular piece of knowledge get retrieved.
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An exemplar is a concept within a schema that is the single best representative of some category.
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Attribution theory tells us that communications provide information in ways beyond the explicit or obvious content
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Before a consumer goes to a spa, she believes the environment will be soothing and she will be relaxed after receiving a massage. These beliefs form her expectations of what will happen during and after her spa experience.
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Cognitive coding is the process by which information is transferred from workbench memory to long-term memory for permanent storage.
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Cognitive learning focuses on mental processes occurring as consumers comprehend and elaborate upon information that they receive.
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Cognitive learning takes place through information processing
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Combining is the process of grouping stimuli by meaning so that multiple stimuli can become a single memory unit.
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Comprehension involves both cognitive and affective elements
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Comprehension is the psychological process by which knowledge is recorded
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Consumers associate likeability, expertise, and trustworthiness of a source with credibility.
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Contexting is the term that captures the idea that the same information can take on different meanings based on the way in which the information is presented
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Continuation refers to the extent to which a consumer continues processing a message even after an initial understanding is achieved in the comprehension stage.
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Dual coding occurs when two different sensory traces are available to remember something
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Environment density refers to the amount of information available for a consumer to process within a given environment
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Every concept within a consumer's associative network is linked to every other concept.
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Factors that influence comprehension can be divided into three categories: characteristics of the message, characteristics of the message receiver, and characteristics of the environment
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Generally speaking, the larger the font, the larger the picture, or the more intense the sound, the less likely a consumer is to comprehend something from a message
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Ground is the term representing the object that is intended to capture a person's attention, the focal part of any message.
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Habituation is the process by which continuous exposure to a stimulus affects the comprehension of and response to the stimulus
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Iconic storage is the storage of auditory information in sensory memory.
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Imperative knowledge refers to cognitive components that represent facts.
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Likeability of a source can influence message comprehension
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Long-term memory is a repository for all information that a person has encountered.
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Message complexity represents the extent to which a message is internally consistent and fits surrounding information.
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Negatively framed information often leads consumers to be less willing to take risks.
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Nostalgia is a yearning to relive past events
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Paths show the association between nodes in an associative network.
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Personal elaboration provides the deepest comprehension and greatest chance of accurate recall.
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Primary memory is the area in memory where the things that we encounter with any of the five human senses are stored.
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Priming theory hypothesizes that the way in which information is framed differentially affects risk assessments and any associated consumer decisions.
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Prototypes present concepts in an associative network.
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Right-brain-dominant consumers tend to deal better with verbal processing (words), whereas left-brain-dominant consumers tend to be visual processors
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Rumination means stimuli are converted to meaning that can be expressed verbally.
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Sensory memory has unlimited capacity and duration.
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Social memory refers to the memory for past events in one's life.
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Social stereotype is another word for social schema.
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The duration of workbench memory is unlimited but capacity is limited.
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The level of a stimuli to which a consumer has become accustomed is called the habituation level
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The multiple store theory of memory views the memory process as utilizing four different storage areas within the human brain.
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The physical characteristics of a message refer to its attributes that are sensed directly.
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The process of comprehension is influenced very little by internal factors within the consumer.
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Thoughts that contradict a message are called negative arguments.
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To really learn something, you should repeat it over and over.
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Workbench memory is short-term