Cognition

Question 1

By taking text and class notes in own words you are improving memory by

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encoding memory semantically

Question 2

Learning your new phone number interferes with you remembering the old one. This is because of

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retroactive interference

Question 3

Contemporary psychologists are likely to criticize Whorf's linguistic determinism hyp. for

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underestimate extent to which thinking occurs without lang.

Question 4

Telegraphic speech is

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a grammatically correct two-word utterance

Question 5

Noam Chomsky argues that children's readiness to learn language is a (n)

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biological predisposition

Question 6

Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially

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rapid and subsequently slows down

Question 7

Thinking strategies that allow us to solve problems & make judgments efficiently are called

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heuristics

Question 8

Vowel sounds placed between a t & an n produce words such as tan, ten. These sounds represent

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phonemes

Question 9

A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ___ memory.

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long-term

Question 10

The earliest stage of speech development is called the ___ stage.

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babbling

Question 11

The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as

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long term potentiation

Question 12

The human capacity for storing long-term memories is

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essentially unlimited

Question 13

A sudden realization of the solution to a problem is called

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insight

Question 14

During the earliest stage of speech development, infants

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make speech sounds that do not occur in parent language

Question 15

By shrinking the hippocampus, prolonged stress is most likely to inhibit the process of

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long term meory formation

Question 16

Semantic encoding refers to the processing of

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meanings

Question 17

B. F. Skinner emphasized the importance of ___ in language acquisition.

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reinforcement

Question 18

An algorithm is a

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methodical step by step procedure for solving problems

Question 19

Sounds/words not immediately attended to can be recalled seconds later because of our

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echoic memory

Question 20

When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe it, which test of memory is used?

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Recall

Question 21

Your consciously activated but limited-capacity memory is called

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short term memory

Question 22

Remembering how to solve jigsaw puzzle without conscious recollection that you can illustrates

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implicit memory

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