Cognitive Psychology Questions

what was the purpose of getting the participants to do recall after 20 mins?

what was the purpose of getting the participants to do immediate memory recall?

what did baddeley want the participants to learn?

what are the three different stores that the brain likes to store information into?

what third key memory store does the multi store model of memory describe?

albert is a retiree in his mid 60's his wife who is the same age lies to read the latest novels and attend poetry reading she also works the daily crossword puzzle in the new your times and is taking a language class albert thinks that she is wasting her time and that retirement should be a time to kicking back they both worked hard in school and had great careers so what more does she want albert protest which of the following might be good advice for alberts wife a. she should tell albert that all of his mental activity si likely to keep her mind sharp hat he should join her in some of her pursuits b. she should probably relax more after all at her age how much more can she really learnc. she should leave albert alone; he is taking retirement seriously d. she should continue in her activities but they will not have any impact on her later memory ability

factors associated with keeping a sharp mind as we ge include all of the following expect a. educational attainmentb. being physically active c. engaging in comfortable easy task d. having a high IQ

one way to improve the accuracy and efficiency of retrieval is through the use of a. retrieval cuesb. encoding cuesc. storage cuesd. non of the above

to improve your performance in your courses you must make sure the info you are studying is a. well organized b. accuratec. complete d. all of the above

retrospective memory involves remembering info about doing something in the ____ and prospective memory involves remembering info about doing something in the ____ a. past ; presentb. past; future c. present ; future d. present ; past

according to the connectionist network view of memory, memories are _____ and according to the schema theory of memory, memories are ____a. abstract concepts large knowledge structuresb. neural connections; large knowledge structures c. parallel concepts; electrical impulses d. concurrent concepts; nodes of info

the extensiveness of processing information at a given level is calleda. scope of processing b. depth of processingc. span of memoryd. elaboration

andrew is getting ready for a group intervieww for a job he really wants the group session will take place at the beginning of the day followed by individual interviews when the manager who is conducting the interview calls andrew he tell shim that because he has not talked at any of the other candidates yet andrew can decide when he would like his individual interview to be there are five candidates which position should andrew take a. andrew should go their because that way he will be right in the middle and the interviewer will not be too nervous or too tiredb. andrew should go either first or last to be the candidate most likely to be rememberedc. andrew should probable go second sot that he will not be sitting around feeling nervous for too long and besides asking to go first might seem pushy d. it will not matter so andrew should just pick a spot randomly

marco a college freshman is sure that he knows the name of his old little league coach but he cannot quit pull the name out of his memory marco is experiencinga. anterograde amnesiab. retrograde amnesiac. associative interference d. tip of the tongue phenomenon

short term memory has a ____ capacity than sensory memory and a ______ durationa. more limited; longerb. less limited; longerc. larger; shorterd. more limited; shorter

james and adam are very good friends and often sit next to each other in intro psych. James spends a lot of time in class working on homework for his biology lab while Adam listens to the lecture and takes lots of notes before the first exam james ask to borrow adams notebook from intro and studies those notes very carefully in fact both james and adam study for 10 hours for the test after the exam james finds out he got a C while adam got an A james cannot understand how they could have studied the same notes yet gotten such different grades the most likely most accurate explanation is that a. james and adam encoded the info differently b. adam simply has a better memory than james c. james is taking too many hard courses and could not retrieve the info as well as adam because of stressd. adam probably gave james fake notes to torpedo his work

there term for th failure of info to enter into long term memory is a. rehearsal failureb. encoding failurec. proactive interference d. retroactive interference

the tendency to remember the items at the beginning ad end of a list more easily than the items in the middle is the a. bookends effectb. serial cues effectc. serial position effectd. endpoints effect

carlos who is fluent in Spanish is planning a trip to Paris and decides to take a course in french on carlos first french vocab quiz his instructor notes that he has mixed up a lot of Spanish work with french words carlos cannot understand why because he has always excelled at learning languages what is happening to carlos a. carlos is experiencing retroactive interferente his knowledge of spanish is interfering with learning the new french words b. carlos is experiencing proactive interference his knowledge of spanish is interfering with learning the new french wordsc. carlos is experiencing anterograde amnesia he seems unable to learn new words d. carlos has hit his limit on languages he should stick to spanish and visit barcelona instead

one of the most effective ways to make our memories distinctive is to use mental a. cures b. rehearsalc. imageryd. concentration