The short-term store in the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory is related to the work of _____________
a. Miller c. Sperling
b. Brown d. Peterson and Peterson
Answer: b
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Which of the following is an acceptable operational definition for an auditory threshold?
a. The lowest intensity of a sound, as measured in decibels, at which a participant always reports hearing the sound b. The lowest intensity of a sound, as measured in decibels, at which every participant in an experiment reports hearing the sound c. The lowest intensity of a sound, as measured in decibels, at which a participant reports hearing the sound 50% of the time d. The lowest intensity of a sound, as measured in decibels, at which 50% of the participants report hearing the sound.
Which of the following is most likely to improve performance on an exam?
A) using maintenance rehearsal instead of elaborative rehearsal B) taking a practice test before hand C) avoiding "over studying" the material D) studying from small stacks of flashcards instead of one big stack.
Your sister is very concerned about your nephew, who is a toddler. When they were at the pediatrician's office, the doctor measured your nephew's head circumference and his head is not growing as quickly as his body
What should you tell your sister? a. She should find a good surgeon. The fontanels must have closed too soon. b. You suggest that your nephew must have microcephaly. c. This is to be expected, as the body grows faster than the head during toddlerhood. d. You should remind her that she also has a very small head.
In semantic memory tasks, response time is speeded up or judgments are made more easily when the concepts are closer together in semantic distance—that is, when they are more closely related
The effect is reversed when the comparison is false; that is, RT is longer for the comparison "a whale is a fish" vs. "a whale is a bird." This is an example of __________. a. superordinate effect b. semantic relatedness effect c. subordinate effect d. Hampton priming