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