PSY 102 Final Exam – 2026/2027 UPDATED REVIEW
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• Memory Demo: DRM task -✓✓ - Words related to the word, sleep, were
presented in class (sleep was not presented).
- Asked class to report words and see if sleep was recalled.
• Memory Illusion -✓✓ is a false, but subjectively compelling memory
• Semantic networks -✓✓ - Represents how concepts are organized in the mind
- Links between words are based on meaning
• memory -✓✓ - the retention of information over time
- malleable (easily influenced)
• savant syndrome -✓✓ describes unusual skills (most often in memory, music, art,
calculation) in the presence of disability in other areas
• Rajan Mahadevan (savant syndrome) -✓✓ - Memorized pi to 31,811 digits
- Could recall from a specific row vs. starting from the beginning
• Stephen Wiltshire (savant syndrome) -✓✓ - Architectural artist and autistic
savant
,-Known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once
• Memory Demo: Walk to class -✓✓ - Demonstrated reconstructive aspects
- Seeing yourself walking in third or first person
• Memory demo: Office -✓✓ showed that people tend to misremember objects that
fit with our
schema of what is typically found in an office (e.g., books, computer).
• Three types of memory and how they differ -✓✓ sensory, short term, long term
They differ in terms of capacity and duration
• Can we lose memory? -✓✓ Yes and at each stage (types) of memory
• sensory memory -✓✓ the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information
in the memory system
iconic and echoic subtypes
• icnonic memory -✓✓ Memory for visual stimuli that lasts one second
• echoic memory -✓✓ memory for auditory stimuli that lasts 5-10 secs
, • Sperling's study -✓✓ Conducted: Flashed letters on the screen testing the
duration of visual sensory memory
Findings: Found that we hold can register 12 letters but only recall 4-5 letters,
memory faded
• Whole Report Method (Sperling) -✓✓ subjects were asked to report as many (all)
of the items as possible from an entire display
Role of decay: as time goes on you lose information
• Partial report method (sperling) -✓✓ participants heard tone after letters were
flashed which increased the number of letters they could remember
Shows that after the letters disappear, 75% of that info is still in sensory memeory
that participants can access. Tone signals which letter to recall.
• short-term memory -✓✓ Duration of Up to 20 seconds long
Decay + Interference process makes us lose the info
• decay -✓✓ Information fades with time
• Interference -✓✓ loss of info due to competition with other info
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• Memory Demo: DRM task -✓✓ - Words related to the word, sleep, were
presented in class (sleep was not presented).
- Asked class to report words and see if sleep was recalled.
• Memory Illusion -✓✓ is a false, but subjectively compelling memory
• Semantic networks -✓✓ - Represents how concepts are organized in the mind
- Links between words are based on meaning
• memory -✓✓ - the retention of information over time
- malleable (easily influenced)
• savant syndrome -✓✓ describes unusual skills (most often in memory, music, art,
calculation) in the presence of disability in other areas
• Rajan Mahadevan (savant syndrome) -✓✓ - Memorized pi to 31,811 digits
- Could recall from a specific row vs. starting from the beginning
• Stephen Wiltshire (savant syndrome) -✓✓ - Architectural artist and autistic
savant
,-Known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once
• Memory Demo: Walk to class -✓✓ - Demonstrated reconstructive aspects
- Seeing yourself walking in third or first person
• Memory demo: Office -✓✓ showed that people tend to misremember objects that
fit with our
schema of what is typically found in an office (e.g., books, computer).
• Three types of memory and how they differ -✓✓ sensory, short term, long term
They differ in terms of capacity and duration
• Can we lose memory? -✓✓ Yes and at each stage (types) of memory
• sensory memory -✓✓ the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information
in the memory system
iconic and echoic subtypes
• icnonic memory -✓✓ Memory for visual stimuli that lasts one second
• echoic memory -✓✓ memory for auditory stimuli that lasts 5-10 secs
, • Sperling's study -✓✓ Conducted: Flashed letters on the screen testing the
duration of visual sensory memory
Findings: Found that we hold can register 12 letters but only recall 4-5 letters,
memory faded
• Whole Report Method (Sperling) -✓✓ subjects were asked to report as many (all)
of the items as possible from an entire display
Role of decay: as time goes on you lose information
• Partial report method (sperling) -✓✓ participants heard tone after letters were
flashed which increased the number of letters they could remember
Shows that after the letters disappear, 75% of that info is still in sensory memeory
that participants can access. Tone signals which letter to recall.
• short-term memory -✓✓ Duration of Up to 20 seconds long
Decay + Interference process makes us lose the info
• decay -✓✓ Information fades with time
• Interference -✓✓ loss of info due to competition with other info
