Cognitive Psychology Exam 2 practice

Cognitive Psychology Exam 2 practice Questions

The word length effect shows that it is more difficult to remember

• a list of words that are all the same length than a list of words that are of

different lengths

• a list of words that are of different lengths than a list of words that are all

the same length

• a long list of words than a short list of words
• a list of long words than a list of short words

(Ans- d

Which of the following processes is NOT influenced by working memory span

• reading ability
• reading comprehension
• inhibiting no-longer-relevant information
• blocking out distracting information

(Ans- a

A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look away, and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying

• echoic memory
• the central executive
• the phonological loop
• the visuospatial sketch pad

(Ans- c

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Which of the following is NOT one of the suggested causes of interference according to McGeoch's interference theory of forgetting

• response competition
• set
• decay
• altered context

(Ans- c

Which of the following is evidence in favor of the consolidation theory of forgetting

• the finding that memory is better if we sleep (while being allowed to

dream) between study and test relative to staying awake between study and test

• the finding that memory is better if we sleep (while not being allowed to

dream) during study and test relative to staying awake between study and test

• the finding that individuals who recover from retrograde amnesia never

remember anything that happened to them in the moments before their accident

• all of the above

(Ans- d

Perseveration is...

• a type of neuron
• a form of interference
• the consolidation of information to long-term memory
• none of the above

(Ans- c

Bransford and Johnson's study had participants hear a passage which turned out to be about a man on the street serenading his girlfriend in a tall building. The wording of the passage made it difficult to understand, but

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