PSYC 3030 7-9 quiz questions

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

one beneficial property of connectionist network is graceful degradation, which refers to the property that

damage to the system does not completely disrupt its operation

the four proposals addressing the representation of concepts in the brain all agree that the information is

distributed

in the semantic network model, a specific category or concept is represented at a

node

In the "War of the Ghosts" experiment, participants reproductions contained inaccuracies based on

cultural expectations

What is the key difference between synaptic consolidation and systems consolidation?

scale

Which of the following is key to the illusory truth effect?

Repetition

According to Rosch, the ____ level of categories reflects people's everyday experience

basic

learning in the connectionist network is represented by adjustments to network

connection weights

According to the ____ approach to memory, what people report as memories is based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge, experiences, and expectations

constructive

Bartlett's experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the "War of the Ghosts" story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the...

constructive nature of memory

Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as

cryptoamnesia

Which of the following provides the key benefit to the generate and test study strategy?

engagement

which approach to categorization can more easily take into account atypical cases such as flightless birds?

exemplar

Priming occurs when presentation of one stimulus

facilitates the response to another stimulus that usually follows closely in time

In Slameka and Graf's (1978) study, some participants read word pairs, while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The latter group preformed better on a later memory task, illustrating the

generation effect

Research shows that ____ does not improve reading comprehension because it does not encourage elaborative processing of the material

highlighting

According to the typicality effect

items that are high in prototypicality are judged more rapidly as being in a group

The concept of encoding specificity is grounded in which of the following?

location

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

___ occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the sentence

pragmatic inference

___ is a "typical" member of a category

prototype

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

According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are

short and across several days

The principle that we encode information together with its context is known as encoding

specificity

Collins and Quillian explained the results of priming experiments by introducing the concept of ____

spreading activation

James Nairne would say that effective encoding of memory is based on which of the following?

survival

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

Ellen is 52 years old. Which of the following experiences has most likely faded from her memory?

winning the first grade spelling bee