Cognitive Psychology Questions
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Which are examples of the two kinds of declarative, factual LTM?a- Remembering how to tie your shoe and remembering the first time you votedb- Remembering the first time you voted and remembering the difference between episodic and semantic memory for your examc- Remembering the difference between episode and semantic memory for your exam and remembering how to tie your shoed- Reaching for your phone when you hear a notification tone and remembering how to tie your shoe
In general _____________ memory has less capacity and shorter duration compared to __________ memory.a- Long-term / short-termb- Long-term / declarativec- Declarative / short-termd- Short-term / long-term
What phenomenon we discussed helps to counter against the idea that mental processes are only the result of a stimulus that elicits a standard response and not influenced by the person experiencing them?a- Figures that have a "reversible" percept (can be perceived in different ways)b- The fact that rats can learn without reinforcementc- Classical conditioning allows for the Unconditioned Stimulus to be swapped for the Conditioned Stimulusd- All of these
There are lots of models of memory, but they mostly agree that there are two main kinds of LTM and STM. One of the main findings to support this comes from a study where participants had to memorize a list of words and then either recall them immediately or first count backwards for 30 seconds and then recall them. The results showed that:a- There was no difference in performance between the two groupsb- Participants in the immediate recall group recalled words at the start of the list better than the rest of the list, and participants in the delayed/backwards-counting group recalled words at the end of the list better than the rest of the listc- Participants in the immediate recall group recalled words at the end of the list better than the rest of the list, and participants in the delayed/backwards-counting group recalled words at the start and end of the list better than the rest of the listd- Participants in the immediate recall group recalled words at the start and end of the list better than the rest of the list, and participants in the delayed/backwards-counting group recalled words at the start of the list better than the rest of the list.
You want to test whether a given brain area is involved in a certain cognitive task. Which of these techniques and data would be most useful:a- EEG to get a map of the different brain areas that are active during the task compared to another task or a baseline taskb- fMRI to get to get a map of the different brain areas that are active during the task compared to another task or a baseline taskc- tDCS to stimulate the part of the brain and measure the corresponding brain activityd- CT scan to get a map of the brain area under investigation
Some memory loss is due to structural damage to the brain
Do heuristics guarantee a correct solution?
There must be a certain amount of a stimulus to detect it
In working memory info can be elaborated on, or connected w/ long term memories
In serial position effect, information in the middle is exposed to both retroactively and proactively
Blank rehearsal is the repetition of things in stm to build ltm
Blank takes in information in WMM and allocates it to varying components depending on whether it is sensory or auditory.
What study supports State dependant forgetting? What state where they in when being tested?
What two explanations of forgetting are classed under retrival faliure?Which one was studied by Gadden and Baddly?
What word means to add false details to a memory?
Blank is used when you plan a spatial (physical relationship between things) task to help you visualise the arrangement in space?
Blank dependent forgtting is lack of retrival due to being in a differing emotional/mental condition than when information was encoded
Blank is your brain encoding the memory based on it's medium (audio/visual,etc) and encoding differently depending on it's medium
Who did the study that depicted retroactive interference?
Blank is when you forget due to one memory blocking out another.