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Retroactive Interference is when new information interferes with the ability to remember old information
False
True
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The central executive integrates information from which two slave systems?
Phonological buffer
Visuo-spatial sketchpad
Phonological loop
Visuo-spatial map
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A type of declarative memory for impersonal factual knowledge
Episodic
Semantic
Declarative
Procedural
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a brain disorder likely caused by what?
Repeated Head injuries
Degeneration
Studying too hard
Recreational or medicinal drug use
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Relearning is thought to be the most sensitive of the measures of retention
True
False
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The inability to get a certain piece of information from LTM because appropriate cues are not used....
Motivated Forgetting
Decay
Interference
Retrieval Failure
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Attention is:
The capacity to focus on multiple stimulus while processing.
The capacity to focus on a specific stimulus while ignoring other stimuli.
The capacity to focus on a specific stimulus and interpret it.
The capacity to selectively divide your attention.
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used to investigate phenomenon where one variable can be manipulated to see the effect on another variable.
Case Study
Experimental
Correlational
Observational
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Perception involves the process of:
Selection, Organisation and Interpretation
Selective, Oranges and Impediments
Silence, Overture and Integer
Salutation, Condensation, Invitation
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Which memory store is mainly acoustic, with a capacity of 5-9 items?
Short-Term
Long-Term
Apple Watch
Sensory
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used mostly in developmental studies (looking at changes as people get older).
Experimental
Non-Experimental
Correlational
Longitudinal
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Memories are temporarily held here then moved to the pre-frontal cortex
Hippocampus
Amygdala
I-phone
Cerebellum
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things that are kept the same to minimise the effect of anything other than the IV having an affect on the DV...
Objective Variables
Extraneous Variables
Control Variables
Subjective Variables
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This part of the brain is unlikely to store any memories
LTM
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Cerebellum
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Ebbinghaus (1885) (we will learn more about him later) was the first researcher to scientifically study relearning.
True
False
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used to describe behaviour (not explain it).
Non-Experimental studies
Cross-sectional
Longitudinal
Experimental studies
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Recall, Recognition, Relearning are what...
Ways of understanding the memory process
Ways of measuring how much a person has remembered (measures of retention)
Categories of remembering
A poetic use of alliteration
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A component of the working memory model that temporarily stores and processes auditory information.
Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad
Phonological Loop
Central Executive
Episodic Buffer
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a type of declarative memory for personally significant events.
Procedural
Declarative
Episodic
Semantic
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Identify the IV: Workers on an assembly line are more productive when working alone than in a small group
Productivity
The workers
the type of assembly line
Working alone or in a group
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Instead of using 50 animals, only 10 are used...is an example of
Refinement
Reduction
Replacement
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Remembering is...
The ability to coordinate cues in the episodic buffer
The ability to retrieve information from LTM
The ability to retrieve encoded information from the hippocampus
The ability to retrieve information from the STM
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A component of the working memory model that temporarily stores consolidated information from all the others mentioned!
Central Executive
Phonological Loop
Episodic Buffer
Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad
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Listening to a sentence in your own language involves
Shallow Processing
Deep Processing
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Sensation involves three main steps:
reception, transmutation, admission
reception, transduction, transmission
revolving, transcending, translating
repetition, trasduction, advermission
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Transduction is the process of changing sensory information into...
sensory receptors
brain matter
echoic information
electrochemical energy
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The three types of recall are...
Free, Serial, and Cued
Finite, Semantic, Cued
Free, Serial and Clued
Free, Cereal, and Cubed
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Forgetting occurs because other memories get confused with the retrieval of what the person is trying to recall...
Motivated forgetting
Retrieval Failure
Decay
Interference
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Baddeley and Hitch described the short-term store as:
Highly complex store of short and long-term information
A central executive
A complex active store that holds and manipulates pieces of information
A simplistic store for skills or actions
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The four theories of forgetting are:
Retrieval failure, Interference, Motivated forgetting, Decay
Retrieval failure, interdependence, Motivated forgetting, Decay
Retrieval decay, Interference, Forgetting, Death
Retrial, Interference, Motivated forgetting, Decay
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A component of the working memory model that stores and manipulates visual and spatial information.
Episodic Buffer
Phonological Loop
Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad
Central Executive
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Forgetting is:
Failure to retrieve information that has been previously stored
Failure to remember crucial information in an important moment.
Failure to retrieve data that has been semantically encoded.
Failure.
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Cherry's experiment demonstrated:
How we can select the best cherry's from a tree.
How we use divided attention and selective attention in a noisy place.
How selective attention is inadequate in a noisy place.
How cannot divide our attention at a party
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A type of long-term memory for factual information that can be expressed in words.
Declarative
Procedural
Episodic
Semantic
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Relearning is thought to be the least sensitive of the measures of retention
False
True
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making a deliberate effort to keep the memory out of conscious awareness is a form of motivated forgetting...which one?
Suppression
Repression
Reprisal
Supplementing
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Recognition is a more sensitive measure of retention than recall
False
True
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Transduction is the process of changing sensory information into short-term memory
False
True
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A strength of experimental studies is that they can determine a cause and effect relationship
True
False
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Decay is not likely to be a common cause of forgetting
False
True
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Which memory store has unlimited capacity and is relatively permanent?
Short-term
Google
Sensory
Long-term
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Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968, divided memory into six components.
True
False
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Use correlation to see if there is a relationship between behaviouralvariables
Correlational
Cross-sectional
Case Studies
Longitudinal
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used to study individuals with a specific injury or disorder to gain an understanding of how things work in people
Cross-sectional
Longitudinal
Case Studies
Non-Experimental studies
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Selection, Organisation and Interpretation are influenced by:
Differing Contexts
Unique Past Experiences
All of the Above
Cultural Factors
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The three Rs of using Animals in Research
Replacement, Reduction, Refinement
Reconfigure, Restitution, Recreation
Reconfigure, Reduce, Reuse
Replacement, Reeducation, Review
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Proactive interference is when old information interferes with the ability to remember old information.
False
True
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a type of long-term memory for skills or actions that are usually difficult to explain in words.
Episodic
Procedural
Declarative
Semantic
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A component of the working memory model responsible for coordinating the slave systems as well as controlling attention.
Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad
Episodic Buffer
Phonological Loop
Central Executive
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Identify the DV: Workers on an assembly line are more productive when working alone than in a small group
Productivity
Working in a small group
Working alone
the type of assembly line
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Listening to the same sentence in a foreign language will make it much harder to remember and repeat back the sentence
Deep Processing
Shallow Processing
