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Introduction
Applied Cognitive Psychology explores how principles and theories of cognitive psychology covering topics such as perception, memory, attention, problem-solving, and decision-making can be utilized to address real-world issues. The course examines applications in areas like education, clinical settings, workplace productivity, human-computer interaction, eyewitness testimony, and consumer behavior. Through research-based evidence, students will gain a practical understanding of cognitive processes and learn to critically analyze how knowledge of the mind can inform interventions, improve outcomes, and solve everyday challenges.
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Memory Foundations and Applications 3rd Edition by Bennett L. Schwartz
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Memory
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Q1) Factors that are manipulated across different conditions are called:
A)dependant
B)independent
C)direct
D)indirect
Answer: B
Q2) Describe the Spacing Effect of mnemonic improvement.
Answer: Learning occurs when the same information is spread over time.
Q3) What type of operation indicates study spread out over time?
A)overload practice
B)massed practice
C)nonspaced practice
D)distributed practice
Answer: D
Q4) A retention interval equals the time transpired between learning and ______. Answer: recall
Q5) The ______ effect is the observation that memory is usually superior for items at the end of a list.
Answer: regency
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Chapter 2: Memory and the Brain
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Q1) Which type of neuroimaging equipment can measure when the amygdala is active when evaluating emotional content?
A)magnetoencephalography
B)PET scan
C)EEG
D)intracranial EEG
Answer: A
Q2) A clinician observes a patient requesting pain alleviation from Parkinson's disease.The patient is experiencing extreme motor disorders and major depression.The clinician suggests the ______ device that requires implantation for medical reasons. Answer: DBS
Q3) This part of the brain is an important relay point in human memory circuits.
A)diencephalon
B)amygdala
C)hippocampus
D)hypercampus
Answer: A
Q4) Engram is the hypothetical physical unit of ______ of a memory. Answer: storage
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Chapter 3: Working Memory
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Q1) Explain a rehearsal prevention task and give one example.
Answer: It prevents maintenance of working memory and participants in remembering words in a list.
Q2) The standard explanation of why primacy effects occur is that:
A)we recall the items using sensory memory.
B)we recall the items because they were stored in long-term memory.
C)we recall the items because the experimenter always makes the first items the easiest.
D)we recall the items because the primacy words are no longer be encoded elaboratively.
Answer: B
Q3) In an n-backed task a cue will indicate a must report that a digit occurred n digits before, n will vary depending on the task requirements.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The work of G.A.Miller involved a specific type of information system involving possible decomposable ______ involving more information.
Answer: chunks
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Chapter 4: Episodic Memory
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Q1) Neurocognitive system retrieving information of personal experiences is ______
Q2) In Godden and Baddeley's (1975) experiment, scuba divers remembered best when:
A)they were tested on land.
B)they were tested underwater.
C)they retrieved in the opposite environment that they learned in.
D)they retrieved in the same environment that they learned in.
Q3) Survival processing means that:
A)we remember the words we learned when we feel as if our lives are threatened, as in weapon focus.
B)people more prone to use deeper processing are more likely to survive evolutionarily.
C)focusing on the relevance of words to surviving in an imaginary grasslands leads to strong memory traces.
D)the more we study certain words, the more they will "survive" in memory.
Q4) The von Restorff effect works because the isolated item always occurs in a critical serial position.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the difference between elaborative rehearsal and maintenance rehearsal.
Q6) Explain the relationship between episodic memory and semantic memory.
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Chapter 5: Semantic Memory
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Q1) Spreading activation refers to the concept of transferring activation from:
A)neuron to a neuron.
B)dendrite to a dendrite.
C)node to a node.
D)memory to a memory.
Q2) An associative model means that:
A)we represent information in semantic memory in terms of connections among units of information.
B)we represent information in semantic memory directly in terms of how neurons fire.
C)we represent information in semantic memory in terms of its relation to episodic memory.
D)we represent information in semantic memory without regard to the behaviors involved in knowledge.
Q3) In an experiment on prototypes and semantic priming, Miles and Minda (2012) found that priming:
A)led to faster judgments for prototypical category members.
B)led to slower judgments for prototypical category members.
C)priming does not affect prototype affirmation.
D)priming was not measurable when judgment processes were not affected.
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Chapter 6: Visual Memory
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Q1) A major issue in visual imagery is the nature of ______.
Q2) Own-Race bias means that people are better at recognizing members of their own race.
A)True B)False
Q3) Explain the importance and function of the primary visual cortex.
Q4) Shepard and Metzler measured the amount of time it took for participants to come to a decision of same versus different as a function of the degrees of difference between the two figures in a pair.They found that:
A)reaction times were always equivalent, supporting the propositional view.
B)reaction times were inversely proportional to the weighting of each figure in visual memory.
C)the more the two figures were rotated away from each other, the more time it took participants to make their decisions.
D)same judgments were always faster than different judgments.
Q5) The ______ technique involves creating an image that links two items in memory.
Q6) ______ representation essentially means that visual images are stored in a language-like code.
Q7) ______ categories states that meaning affects cognitive maps.
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Chapter 7: Autobiographical Memory
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Q1) Simcock and Hayne (2002) found that children only remembered those objects for which they possessed the vocabulary for when they witnessed the event.Which view of childhood amnesia does this support?
A)The influence of language development on childhood amnesia
B)The psychodynamic view because children repress what they do not know
C)The view that neural development is not complete
D)The influence of the development of a working self
Q2) Cross-cultural studies show that people most affected by a public tragedy tend to repress that event.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One advantage of doing single-subject memory diary studies is that:
A)because the subject is also the researcher, long retention (i.e., several years) intervals can be employed.
B)because the subject is also usually a professor, the diaries are usually quite legible.
C)single-subject studies are highly generalizable to the general public.
D)because the subject is focusing on memory, his or her memory may be optimal.
Q4) Explain the "cue-word" technique in memory.
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Chapter 8: False Memory
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Q1) If you false report a memory of an imagined event as really happening, your false memory has arisen because of:
A)source-monitoring problems.
B)suggestibility issues.
C)the correspondence problem.
D)associative structures.
Q2) Describe the false memory induction procedure.
Q3) Research shows that the cognitive interview:
A)can bias witness reports in such a way as to guarantee accurate line-up performance.
B)is an effective method for creating false memories.
C)leads to increased accuracy, although the amount does not increase.
D)boosts the amount recalled by a willing eyewitness by about 30%
Q4) Williams (1995) tracked women who had been abused and hospitalized as children.She found that:
A)a percentage of those women no longer remembered the abuse.
B)all of the women suffered from repression.
C)with the use of appropriate retrieval techniques, the women recovered their memories.
D)recovery of memories that had been repressed was impossible.
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Chapter 9: Metamemory
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Q1) Rhodes and Tauber (2011) in a meta-analysis of the literature find that the monitoring dual-memories hypothesis accounts for a greater percentage of the delayed judgments of learning accuracy effect than does the ______ memory strength mechanism.
Q2) Explain cue-target judgments of learning.
Q3) Narinder has two exams the following day.She is convinced that no matter what she does, she will not be able to pass one of them.On the other hand, she thinks if she studies hard for the other exam, she could actually do well.Therefore, Narinder decides to study only for the exam she thinks she can pass.Narinder has:
A)made an error known as the conjunction fallacy-her performance in one exam is independent of her performance in the other exam.
B)demonstrated a lack of metamemory because with sufficient effort anyone can pass two exams.
C)failed to understand a principle of metamemory-namely that JOLs can be used to help us study.
D)demonstrated an aspect of metacognitive control-she marshaled her resources to accomplish a possible goal.
Q4) Distinguish between metacognition and metamemory.
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Chapter 10: Memory Disorders
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Q1) In implicit memory tasks, patients with amnesic syndrome show normal repetition priming in word fragment completion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Unlike amnesias due to brain damage, psychogenic amnesia sometimes involves:
A)deficits in working memory.
B)deficits in emotional processing.
C)changes in personality.
D)loss of personal identity.
Q3) The area of the brain associated with anterograde amnesia is the ______ area.
Q4) Dissociative amnesia refers to when the patient shows dissociations between explicit and implicit memory.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The category of drugs known as benzodiazepines simulate which form of amnesia?
A)psychogenic amnesia
B)anomic amnesia
C)frontal lobe syndrome
D)anterograde amnesia
Q6) Explain Transient global amnesia.
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Chapter 11: Memory in Childhood
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Q1) In Wimmer and Perner's (1983) experiment on ______ belief, it was found that 3-year-olds did not successfully predict where a confederate would think a hidden item was, but the 5-year-olds were successful.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most infants can recognize the sound and meaning of familiar words:
A)before their first birthday.
B)at birth.
C)within the first month of life.
D)not until they are 2 years of age.
Q3) Younger children show fewer meaning-based memory errors.This summarizes the research on false memory.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Dora is 6-year-old.You would expect her to:
A)know that the waiter at the restaurant does not know what she likes to eat.
B)show more suggestibility than her 9-year-old sister.
C)recall events that occurred 6 months earlier.
D)all of the above.
Q5) In imitation, an infant must ______ the physical actions of another.
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Chapter 12: Memory in Older Adults
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Q1) Research on multi-tasking and memory supports the contention that:
A)all adults show lower memory performance while multi-tasking, but it is especially acute in older adults.
B)only older adults show lower memory performance while multi-tasking.
C)only younger adults show lower memory performance while multi-tasking.
D)older adults should not listen to books-on-tape while driving.
Q2) Older adults often show less negative correlations between their judgments of learning and their allocation of study time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Because older adults tend to recall less items in paired associate learning, their JOLs tend to be ______ numerically than younger adults.
Q4) Research suggests that, in some domains, older adults have been shown to have better memory skills.Which one of these domains fits that description?
A)working memory
B)encoding into long-term memory
C)source monitoring
D)metamemory
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Chapter 13: Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency
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Q1) Which is a good generalization of the research on retrieval practice?
A)study carefully
B)test thyself
C)plan ahead
D)do not cram
Q2) Kornell (2009) asked participants to study difficult GRE-type words and their more common synonyms (e.g., effulgent: brilliant).Kornell found that:
A)students who were made to distribute their study remembered many more vocabulary terms than those who were made to mass their study.
B)students who were made to mass their study remembered many more vocabulary terms than those who were made to distribute their study.
C)students who choose to mass their study did better than students who were forced to mass their study.
D)students who choose to distribute their study did better than students who were forced to distribute their study.
Q3) Acronyms and ______ are helpful for remembering arbitrary associations.
Q4) Who are Mnemonists?
Q5) Explain distributed learning or practice.
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