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If you are trying to remember a list of words for later recall, the WORST way to do it is:
C) repeat the words over and over, quickly
What kind of concept theory adequately accounts for your knowledge that small birds sing but big birds don't sing?
A) Exemplar theory
Which of the following tasks is LEAST appropriate as a means of testing implicit memory?
D) cued recall
Which of the following is most generally true? _________ errors are most common in short term recall while __________ errors are most common in long term recall:
D) sound-alike...meaningful
In a parallel distributed processing (PDP) connectionist model, an object or event is represented by ______.
D) A pattern of activation across nodes.
The fan effect is taken to support
B) spreading activation network theories
Implicit memories _________________ while explicit memories ____________.
C) involve perceptual fluency...involve meaningful, conceptual relationships
An important theme emerging from memory research is that memory connections:
B) make memories easier to locate but can lead to intrusion errors.
The fact that you generally do best when you are tested for material in the same location as where you learned it is most closely related to:
B) state-dependent memory
In spoken language, morphemes are made up of sound categories called _____.
B) phonemes.
A connectionist model has all but which of the following:
A) a homunculus
Which of the following is a true difference between sensory storage and working memory?
D) Sensory storage is preattentive while working memory needs attention to encode.
There are some basic problems with the modal model of memory. Which of the following is one of them?
C) Maintenance in STS is actually not necessary for LTS encoding.
If you are played a series of 8 sounds that span the range acoustically from [pa] to [ba], how do you perceive them?
C) As a series of [pa] sounds that quite suddenly change to some [ba] sounds
According to language acquisition rules, which of the following mistakes will children seldom if ever make in speaking language?
D) Those that violate Universal Grammar.
The creation of false memories in someone:
C) is possible with just a few brief interviews.
Flashbulb memories are extremely detailed, vivid memories, usually associated with highly emotional events. The accuracy of these memories seems:
C) best predicted by the consequentiality of the event to participants' lives.
In network models, subthreshold activation of a node:
C) can add together with other subthreshold activation
Half of the participants in an experiment learned a list of new material, slept for 8 hours, and were then tested for the material they had learned. The remaining participants learned the same material, spent the next 8 hours awake, and were then tested. Based on other research in this area, we should expect that:
C) the group that slept will remember more because they will experience less retroactive interference.
Which of the following types of concept theories can account for what we know about the variability of items in a category (e.g., that pennies are always the same size, but pizzas are not)
B) exemplar theory
In the exemplar theory framework, which of the following is employed to categorize new things?
B) Individual instances
Several scholars have proposed that concepts must be understood in the context of "mental models" or "implicit theories." This perspective implies all of the following except that:
D) our understanding of a concept includes a definition of the concept but is not limited to that definition.
Following Eleanor Rosch, which of the following is the basic level concept for most people?
B) Dog
Some "framing effect" phenomena in decision-making can be explained by assuming that:
B) subjective utility is an S-shaped function of objective value, with the fastest changes in subjective utility occurring at relatively small values of objective gain or loss
The sentence "John knew the answer was wrong" is
D) all the above
As a neuromaging techinque, ERP is characterized by
B. Low spatial and high temporal resolution
What is one way in which a feature net (for recognizing words) can account for the fact that letter strings that follow the spelling patterns of English are recognized faster than letter strings that don't?
A. including bigram detectors as nodes in the net
The recognition of faces:
C. is influenced by configurational factors, suggesting that a model based on feature detection will provide a poor explanation of face recognition

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