PSY125 Mid semester test

A story is generally not recalled word for word, rather it is reconstructed according to expectations and schema

Struggling with a spot the difference puzzle is an example of:

Which cones are sensitive to short-wavelength (blue) light?

Vivid, long-lasting autobiographical memories for important, dramatic, and surprising public events are:

The tendency to remember the first few words in a long list is known as

The "what" pathway is ventral and the "where" pathway is dorsal

Previously learned material that interferes with learning new material is known as:

The inability to retrieve information is known as:

The process of combining sensory information to form a representation of the world is:

The word CAT would be best recalled if it is processed by thinking:

Problems remembering events prior to the onset of of amnesia is known as

Facts go into LTM better if we process:

A child who is just learning to read will have less Stroop interference than a literate adult

If we wanted to take in as much of a lecture as possible we could get away with listening to the lecture and:

The ability to remain focused on a single task while distracted by unrelated stimuli is known as:

Attention captured by a salient stimulus in the environment is known as:

If you were to study a list of words in a quiet room, you would best remember them:

DOUBLE POINTS!!!! Practice testing is an excellent study technique as you are practicing retrieval

If you were asked to listen to a list of 20 words and then recall them, you are most likely going to recall:

Pulling information out of storage and into "consciousness" is known as:

In a dichotic listening task, what is recalled about the unattended channel?

"Release from proactive interference" would most likely happen with which list

What is the "magical" number for the capacity of Short term memory

The photoreceptors that work best in darker conditions and can't process colour are

It is possible to implant false memories in autobiographical memory that never existed

The inability to remember new information is known as:

The photoreceptors cells that are sensitive to colour and concentrated in the fovea are:

To maintain information for later retrieval is known as:

If you were expecting to teach a concept you would remember it better than if you were expecting to be tested on it

Familiar objects perceived as constant despite changes to the image cast on the retina is known as

Dichotic listening tasks involve:

The AWARENESS that we are able to travel back in time in our minds, yet remain in the present is known as:

In a lexical decision task the following word pair would most likely elicit the fastest RT

The near lack of personal memories for the first 3 years of life is known as

Autobiographical memory would include which TWO of the following: YOU NEED TO CLICK TWICE

Iconic memory lasts for about

Recall performance is best when information is encoded with

If we are focusing on a task and we fail to notice something in front of us, this is known as:

The inability to perceive faces is known as

Which of the following is ARE of Schacter’s “7 sins of memory”? YOU NEED TO CLICK MULTIPLE ITEMS!!

The Gestalt principle used to group these elements is:

The area where the optic nerve meets the retina is known as

The dominant sense for humans is

Ps who remembered "something black coming out of his mouth" in the "War of the Ghosts" story as ""sick" is:

Driving for an learner is an automatic task but for an experienced driver it is a controlled task

This theory states that colour is determined by the ratio of activity of the 3 different types of cones

Which of the following applied to face recognition *MULTI-SELECT 3 ANSWERS*

Translating information into code that can be used by other cognitive processes is known as:

In a STROOP task, which should elicit a FASTER response?

Memory in LTM is stored accurately and in pristine form