Cognitive Psychology Midterm

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 she hears their song on the radio

which of the following learning techniques is least likely to lead to deep processing of the information?

Bree has just bought a new car and is trying to learn her new license plate sequence. every morning for three weeks she repeats the sequence out loud when she wakes up

Memory for a word will tend to be better if the word is used in a complex sentence (like "the bicycle was blue, with high handlebars and a racing seat") rather than a simple sentence (like "he rode the bicycle"). This probably occurs because the complex sentence...

creates more connections

in slameka and graf's (1978) study, ..... illustrating the

generation effect

the recency effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. one way to get rid of the recency effect is to

have participants count backwards for 30 seconds after hearing the last word of the list

K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests...

intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory

Suppose you (a student) are asked by a teacher to learn a poem you will recite in front of your class. Soon after, both you and a classmate, J.P., are asked by another teacher to learn the lyrics to an unfamiliar song. When you and J.P. are later asked to remember the song lyrics, you have a much more difficult time recalling them than J.P. does. This impairment of your performance is most likely attributable to...

proactive interference

according to the TED talk from joshua foer, what impact has technology played on memory

technology has given us little need to remember and has lessened the importance of cultivating our memory

Roediger and Karpicke (2006) found that the recall of a prose passage was significantly better among participants that took repeated recall tests over the passage compared to participants that re-read the passage. describe the result

testing effect

Your text discusses how episodic and semantic memories are interconnected. This discussion revealed that when we experience events,

the knowledge that makes up semantic memories is initially attained through a personal experience based in episodic memory