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Rueben tries to learn a long list of parts of the brain for his exam, and discovers that early on he is remembering the words at the end of the list much better than those in the middle of the list. What is this effect called?
Rueben tries to learn a long list of parts of the brain for his exam, and discovers that early on he is remembering the words at the end of the list much better than those in the middle of the list. What is this effect called?
Mirari signs up for a SONA study which involves her wearing a set of stereo headphones. She is asked to repeat back everything she hears coming in her left ear. Every mow and again noises are broadcast to her right ear.
At the end of the study,Mirari can report every time her name was mentioned in the unattended ear, as well as parts of a story that was being told.
This would be interpreted as evidence for a (n) _______ locus of selection.
Mirari signs up for a SONA study which involves her wearing a set of stereo headphones. She is asked to repeat back everything she hears coming in her left ear. Every mow and again noises are broadcast to her right ear.
At the end of the study,Mirari can report every time her name was mentioned in the unattended ear, as well as parts of a story that was being told.
This would be interpreted as evidence for a (n) _______ locus of selection.
Which of the following processes do NOT describe what could occur in an implicit memory test after you have been shown a word list a few days earlier.
Which of the following processes do NOT describe what could occur in an implicit memory test after you have been shown a word list a few days earlier.
Kirita has just heard a sentence and is now trying to count the number of words in it. She finds herself using her fingers to count even though she is 18 years old. What is going on?
Kirita has just heard a sentence and is now trying to count the number of words in it. She finds herself using her fingers to count even though she is 18 years old. What is going on?
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Imagine a person hears the following sentences read out to them:
The car crashed into the truck
The sports car drove down the hill
The sports car drove down the steep hill
The sports car crashed into the truck
Thirty minutes later, which sentences below would you expect participants to remember BEST (most confidently) as being read out?
Imagine a person hears the following sentences read out to them:
The car crashed into the truck The sports car drove down the hill The sports car drove down the steep hill The sports car crashed into the truck
Thirty minutes later, which sentences below would you expect participants to remember BEST (most confidently) as being read out?
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Conway et al. (2009) studied flashbulb memories formed around September 11th 2001. What is true of their findings?
Conway et al. (2009) studied flashbulb memories formed around September 11th 2001. What is true of their findings?
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Ahmed does not pay much attention or encode much information during lectures because he knows they are being recorded. What is the technical name for this?
Ahmed does not pay much attention or encode much information during lectures because he knows they are being recorded. What is the technical name for this?
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In theorizing about Sternberg's memory scanning task, Snodgrass (1985) considered and graphed three possible patterns of data associated with three possible strategies.
Snodgrass proposed that if a _______ search was made participants would take longer to respond when there were more items in the memory set,
In theorizing about Sternberg's memory scanning task, Snodgrass (1985) considered and graphed three possible patterns of data associated with three possible strategies.
Snodgrass proposed that if a _______ search was made participants would take longer to respond when there were more items in the memory set,
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What is the estimated duration of (A) echoic memory and (B) iconic memory?
What is the estimated duration of (A) echoic memory and (B) iconic memory?
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Carmel knows that when she finishes her meal at her favourite yum cha restaurant she needs to signal the waiter and hand them her card which has stamps indicating which dishes she chose. She then needs to pay before leaving. This is an example of a specific kind of schema called a:
Carmel knows that when she finishes her meal at her favourite yum cha restaurant she needs to signal the waiter and hand them her card which has stamps indicating which dishes she chose. She then needs to pay before leaving. This is an example of a specific kind of schema called a:
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Study Notes
Serial Position Effect
- Words at the beginning and end of a list are remembered better than those in the middle
Late Selection
- Mirari was able to unconsciously process information coming into her right ear even when she was focused on the left
Implicit Memory Tests
- Priming: participants are more likely to recall words that were shown to them earlier (especially if they have a strong association to other words on the list).
- Procedural Learning: Participants who were taught a task a few days earlier may be better at it without consciously remembering learning the task.
- Perceptual Learning: Participants may be able to perceive a certain stimulus better due to repeated exposure to the stimulus previously.
Counting
- Kirita likely uses her fingers to count because this is an example of a behaviour that was learned early on, and she is now employing it automatically (without consciously thinking about it)
- This is like a "procedural memory"
- It is an example of the "accessibility of information"
Memory Confidence
- Participants are likely to confidently remember The sports car crashed into the truck and The sports car drove down the steep hill because these sentences were repeated
Flashbulb Memories
- Conway et al. (2009) found that flashbulb memories are not always accurate, and while they are highly vivid, they also contain significant inaccuracies
- Flashbulb memories are not immune to the same kind of forgetting as other memories
Inattentional Blindness
- Ahmed is exhibiting inattentional blindness, in which he is not encoding information relevant to the lecture because he is relying on the recording
Sternberg's Memory Scanning Task
- Serial Self-terminating search: If participants are scanning their memory sequentially, they would take longer to respond when there are more items (because they have to scan further down the list)
- Snodgrass (1985) proposed that this pattern of the search strategy would lead to a linear increase in response time as the set size increases.
Sensory Memory Duration
- Echoic memory: ~ 3-4 seconds
- Iconic memory: ~ 250 milliseconds
Schema
- Carmel's knowledge about her favourite yum cha restaurant can be considered a restaurant schema (a type of script schema) - a structured set of expectations that guides how we think and behave in situations)
- The schema is a cognitive framework that allows her to know what to do in the situation, and what to expect
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Description
This quiz explores the phenomenon known as the serial position effect, where individuals recall items from a list with varied accuracy based on their position. Test your understanding of this concept and its implications in psychology.
