Quiz 1.4 Coglab 7&8 Flashcards
In the results of the OLD VERSION of the Memory Span Coglab that you were shown in the slides, which type of item had the shortest memory span?
a. Short words
b. Letters that sound similar
c. Letters that sound different
d. Long words
d. Long words
In the Memory Span Coglab, how was your “memory span” for each type of item calculated?
a. The average number of items in the sequence presented.
b. The average number of items in any sequence.
c. The maximum number of items in the sequence presented.
d. The maximum number of items in any sequence.
c. The maximum number of items in the sequence presented.
What would it mean if you had a memory span of 10 for numbers?
a. You have an average Short Term Memory.
b. You have an above average Short Term Memory.
c. Your memory span for words would be 15
d. You have an impaired Short Term Memory.
b. You have an above average Short Term Memory.
What would you predict might have happened in the OLD VERSION of the Memory Span Coglab (which you were shown in the slides) if you had been instructed to visualise the list items in order to rehearse them?
a. All options are correct.
b. The Memory Span would be longer for concrete nouns than for abstract nouns.
c. The word length effect would not occur.
d. The phonological confusion effect would not occur.
a. All options are correct.
Operation Span score is predictive of
a. Ability to focus attention.
b. Reading comprehension.
c. Operation Span is predictive of all of these.
d. Working memory capacity
c. Operation Span is predictive of all of these.
How was operation span calculated in the Coglab OSpan task?
a. It is the number of Maths problems you answered correctly.
b. It is the sum of the number of words in each of the word sequences that you recalled MINUS the number of Maths problems you answered incorrectly.
c. It is the sum of the number of words in each of the word sequences that you recalled correctly.
d. It is the sum of the number of words in each of the word sequences that you recalled IF your Maths Accuracy was greater than 85%.
d. It is the sum of the number of words in each of the word sequences that you recalled IF your Maths Accuracy was greater than 85%.
People with a high Operation Span score perform___________________ those with a low Operation Span score on measures of the ability to block out distracting information.
a. Worse than.
b. Better than.
c. More variably than.
d. The same as.
b. Better than.
Why was your Operation Span only considered valid if you were more than 85% accurate in answering the Maths problems?
a. To ensure that you were actually completing the Maths problems.
b. Because the minimum Operation Span score in the Coglab is 85
c. Because your Operation Span score is the number of words you recalled plus the number of Maths problems you solved correctly.
d. Because Operation Span is a measure of the number of Maths problems you answered correctly.
a. To ensure that you were actually completing the Maths problems.
