Cognitive MCQ's

Semantics is a component of language. Semantics is the storehouse of...

Sin of ______; when prior knowledge distorts the recollection of previous experience

Retrieval of information from surroundings. Example of?

Syntax is a component of language. Syntax is...

Memory for general information. Eg. Capital of France is Paris

Forgetting your first bike ride but retaining the skill of riding a bike is an example of?

The sin of ______; when the fact is recalled accurately but the source/context is misremembered

Separating information into smaller sections when encoding impacts recall positively. This is?

Unconscious Knowledge. Individual influenced by stimuli although may be unaware of exposure.

_____ bias, when recollections of past events are filtered by current knowledge

______ bias, when role of the self tends to central in recollections.

Sins result in the intrusive recall of unwanted information

Miller (1956) believed the capacity of the STM was:

Who learnt nonsense syllables to demonstrate a learning curve?

Phonology is a component of language. Phonology is...

Forgetting the new and remembering the old is an example of...?

Conscious knowledge, where the individual is aware that they are exposed to the stimuli?

Retrieval of information from items present at the time of encoding and retrieval. Example of?

Language inside your head (thoughts) is known as:

Which store holds information that you are thinking of in the present? (MSM)

To prevent the sin of _______, use cues to encourage retrieval.

Low-level repetitive recycling of information is: (Craik & Lockhart, 1972)

_______ bias, when stereotypes and cultural beliefs influence our recollections

Which sin is caused by attention failings during encoding?

Which is not a memory store in the Multistore model of memory?

Sins which result in an inability to recall information are known as:

How many words will an average person have in their mental dictionary?

Where is the reading centre of the brain?

Which is NOT a slave system?

The system which holds a limited capacity of information & controls the other 3 slave systems?

To prevent the sin of ______, stay calm and focus on the bits that can be recalled.

Retrieval of information due to mental experience during encoding and retrieval. Example of?

Henry Molaison had part of his temporal lobe bilaterally removed, he was special because:

Claparede (1911) pricked amnesiacs, patients learnt to avoid shaking his hand, demonstrating?

Clive Wearing is special because despite brain damage:

_____ bias, when current beliefs cause us to reconstruct the past as similar to the present

Knowing 'that'. Memory for verbal and describable information. Eg. Capitals of the USA?

Riding a bike is an example of?

Complex repetition with analysis of meaning & elaboration on details.. (Craik & Lockhart, 1972)

Lexicon is a component of language. Lexicon is a person's...

Which is not a subsystem of LTM?

Which is NOT an example of emotion affecting eyewitnesses

Recall is better for first words because there is time for rehearsal. This is...

Which slave system manipulates static images to appreciate the visual and spatial aspects?

Which Sins result in a tendency to recall inaccurate information?

Second generation language, when words combined with a syntactic (grammatical) structure, is?

Momentary difficulty recalling the thing that you want to remember?

Which slave system is for integrating multimodal info with info from LTM?

Sin of _______, when you incorporate information provided by others into your memory

Schachter (1999) proposed the:

Primary effect is eliminated by?

Cooking a meal is an example of?

Klatsky (1980) described the STM as:

MSM cannot account for people such as Kim Peek, a world famous savant famous for:

Information in the STM is encoded:

Which sin(s) affect eyewitness testimony?

_____ bias, when current beliefs cause us to reconstruct the past different to the present.

Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968) proposed:

The more similar the material, the greater the extent of forgetting. This is...

Which store holds information in the brain for just enough time to interpret the stimuli? (MSM)

Recency effect is eliminated by the use of?

Which depth level processes auditory information? (Craik & Lockhart, 1972)

Which depth level processes meaning? (Craik & Lockhart, 1972)

To prevent the sin of ______, pay attention and encode all information to a deep level.

Which Depth level processes visual information? (Craik & Lockhart, 1972)

Information held in LTM is no longer available due to the deterioration of memory in time?

Memory for personal or autobiographical information. Eg. What I did last night?

Which slave system is responsible for internally debating and rehearsing words?

Baddeley & Hitch (1974) proposed:

Which is NOT a criticism of Depth processing? (Craik & Lockhart, 1972)

Which store holds rehearsed information for things that occurred at any time in the past? (MSM)

Fisher & Geiselman (1988) helped the reliability of eyewitness testimony by proposing:

Knowing 'How'. Memory for verbal and describable information. Eg. Riding a bike?

First generation languages, where strings of words/gestures allow communication, are called:

Bilinguals have a mental dictionary of how many words on average?

Retrieval of information from emotional experience during encoding and retrieval. Example of?

Which sin results with the loss of information over time, due to decay or retrieval failure?

Articulation is a component of language. Articulation is...

Mnemonics are an active device designed to help memory Which at Mnemonics