Pretest #4 Questions and Answers

Question 1

Eleanor Rosch suggested that category membership is determined by similarity of an exemplar to the concept’s

Answer 1

prototype

Question 2

In many models of human memory, iconic memories are described as decaying in under two seconds from the

Answer 2

sensory register

Question 3

The inability to acquire and consolidate new memories about personal events is called

Answer 3

anterograde amnesia

Question 4

The term consolidation is used in reference to what ability?

Answer 4

memory

Question 5

Memory retrieval is enhanced when a person is in the same situation or environment as during learning. This is called

Answer 5

state-dependent learning

Question 6

When individuals use the representativeness heuristic to estimate how likely something or someone is to be a member of some category (based on its similarity to other members of the category), they often ignore how common or uncommon that category is. The resulting error is called the

Answer 6

base rate fallacy

Question 7

What is primacy effect?

Answer 7

In a free-recall task, items at the beginning of the study list are more likely to be recalled than items in the middle of the list.

Question 8

The writer of an e-mail may put something important is ALL CAPS, or may surround text that needs emphasis with asterisks. These two modifications to text replace which aspect of language that is otherwise missing in e-mail?

Answer 8

prosody

Question 9

Remembering the name of the first president of the United States is to remembering the name of your first teacher as semantic memory is to

Answer 9

episodic memory

Question 10

Memories that are being consciously and actively manipulated, organized, and thought about are part of

Answer 10

working memory