The professor has become so good at reviewing students' papers that spelling errors just seem to jump out at him. What does this best illustrate? correct answers Implicit memory
Shirley is answering questions about the future of RPI while spinning a basketball on her fingers. The question and an...
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The professor has become so good at reviewing students' papers that spelling errors just seem to
jump out at him. What does this best illustrate? correct answers Implicit memory
Shirley is answering questions about the future of RPI while spinning a basketball on her fingers.
The question and answering mostly requires ______ memory, whereas the ball spinning requires
______ memory. correct answers Declarative, procedural
What's the difference between eidetic imagery and iconic memory? correct answers - Eidetic is a
vivid mental image, iconic is sensory memory that we see
- Eidetic memory lasts a long time, iconic is a couple seconds
The textbook describes a famous research participant, SF, who was able to memorize 84 digits,
though his memory for letters was still about average. What can be learned from this study?
correct answers Made it relevant to himself, made it personal, made it easy for him to memorize
by relating it to himself. (Such as comparing these digits with running times)
What are the four components of working memory? correct answers - Episodic Buffer
- Phonological loop
- Visuo-Spatial sketchpad
- Central Executive
Endel Tulving first proposed the distinction in declarative memory between ______ and ______
memory. correct answers Episodic and semantic
Scuba divers learned lists of words while they were either on a beach or under water. When
tested for retention of those words, the divers did better recalling the words learned under what
circumstance? correct answers - The same circumstances in which they learned them
- An example of context specific memory
Consider the word Mississippi. What would be a deep level of processing? What would be
shallow level of processing? correct answers - Deep: learn about context → this is the name of a
river, name of a state
- Shallow: how many s's; how many syllables, reading it over and over again
Research of implicit memory has investigated the relationship between encoding and retrieval by
using priming based on physical features or meaning. What has been concluded? correct answers
- Priming works best when processing and codings match
- Information is retrieved most efficiently if it is based on context
What is the next-in-line-effect? correct answers When you're next in line to speak, you can't
remember what the person before you said, as opposed to the person after you
What's one way to counter the next-in-line-effect? correct answers Elaborate reversal → pay
attention to what the person in front of you is saying
, At the beginning of every exam, Shirley reads over the full set of questions to determine which
ones she feels confident she'll get correct. What is Shirley using to make these judgements?
correct answers Metamemory- strategies that you know you can use, self monitoring
A 2-year-old has just figured out that the soft, furry, four-legged creatures that she loves so much
are "cats." What is her mental representation of this category called? correct answers A concept
In a study by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues on eyewitness memory, participants were
shown a film of a car accident. When tested a week later, it was found that the participant's
memory of whether they had seen broken glass after an accident was most influenced by what?
correct answers Depends upon the words they used when describing the car accident
Karl Lashley carried out his search for the engram by training rats in mazes and then removing
different amounts of what? correct answers Cortex
Which brain structures is most closely associated with procedural memory, memories acquired
by repetition, and classically conditioned responses? correct answers Cerebellum
When you ask your teacher how the class did on the test, all you are told is that the results can be
described by a bell shaped curve, or normal distribution. From this, what should you be able to
deduce about most students scores? correct answers - Most of them are clustered in the middle
and fewer as you go out
- They are around the average
Suppose a researcher wants to determine whether a test is reliable in terms of its internal
consistency. What would be the best way to do this? correct answers A person's scores on half of
a reliable test should be similar to their score on the other half
Morris scored a 72 on a happiness test. To interpret his score, what does he need to consult?
correct answers A normalcy test
A youngster is taking a test in a large room the Person giving the test is very careful that
everyone takes the test under the same conditions. Everyone hears exactly the same instructions,
and is given the same amount of time. It appears as though the test that the youngster is taking is
what? correct answers Standardized tests
What do the Stanford-Binet scales and the Wechsler scales have in common? correct answers
Individually administered tests of intelligence (S. 2.4)
A test taker is using patterned blocks to reproduce designs provided by the examiner. This is an
example of an item that would be from which subtest of the WAIS-IV? correct answers
Perceptual reasoning
On IQ tests today, decisions concerning which scores would be labeled "gifted" are most likely
made on the basis of what? correct answers Top 2%
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