Quiz 1.2 - Coglab 3&4

Question 1

In a “free recall” task, the first few items in a list are remembered particularly well. This is known as the

a. Distractor effect.
b. Primacy effect.
c. Rehearsal effect.
d. Recency effect.

Answer 1

b. Primacy effect.

Question 2

In a “free recall” task, the last few items in a list are remembered particularly well. This is known as the

a. Primacy effect.
b. Rehearsal effect.
c. Distractor effect.
d. Recency effect

Answer 2

d. Recency effect

Question 3

You’re at a friend’s party but you don’t know many people there. Your friend tries to introduce you to some people but you can only remember the names of the first couple of people she introduced you to. This is an example of the

a. Recall effect
b. Recency effect
c. Primacy effect
d. Introvert effect

Answer 3

c. Primacy effect

Question 4

The Serial Position Coglab was a demonstration of

a. Free Recall
b. Recognition
c. Serial Recall
d. Total Recall (the original not the dodgy remake)

Answer 4

a. Free Recall

Question 5

A search of memory in which all items are accessed simultaneously is called

a. A serial search.
b. A self terminating search.
c. A parallel search.
d. An exhaustive search.

Answer 5

c. A parallel search.

Question 6

A search of memory in which all items are accessed one at a time is called

a. An exhaustive search.
b. A parallel search.
c. A self terminating search.
d. A serial search

Answer 6

d. A serial search

Question 7

You are looking for an icon on your computer monitor. To find the icon you search each item on the monitor one by one. You have just completed what type of search?

a. A serial search.
b. An iconic search.
c. A parallel search.
d. Both a serial and a parallel search.

Answer 7

a. A serial search.

Question 8

In Sternberg’s Short Term Memory search task results, how much extra time was required to search for each additional item in the “memory set”?

a. Less than a second.
b. 30 seconds.
c. A second.
d. More than a second a second.

Answer 8

a. Less than a second.