AAMC PSYCHSOC Reviewed Questions and Multiple Selection Solutions

AAMC PSYCHSOC Reviewed Questions and Multiple Selection Solutions Compared to the simultaneous condition, the serial condition of the experiment would be more likely to cause: A.a primacy effect. B.a state dependency effect. C.a misinformation effect. D.a dual-coding effect. - correct answer The passage states that the SERIAL condition had participants presented with objects one at a time. The SIMULTANEOUS condition had subjects presented with object all at once. A. The primacy effect states that subjects remember objects that are presented first. The primacy effect is specifically talking about order of events. The researchers change the procedure such that instead of placing the objects in a box, the participants have to recall all the objects that they have seen during training. According to the spreading of activation theory, which type of memory error is most likely? A. Making source monitoring errors regarding the location of the training objects B. Poorer memory for the training objects seen at the later points in the experiment C. Selective forgetting of the training objects that were placed in the center of the box D.Recalling objects that were not presented but are from the same category as the training objects - correct answer Spreading activation theory says that when a concept is activated, the activation spreads to concepts that are semantically or associatively related to it. POE: A: source monitoring errors are when the source of memory are incorrectly attributed to some specific recollected experience. EXAMPLE: you are told about a new restaurant from a friend, but later on, you tell another person that you heard about the restaurant form the new. This is putting this memory with the wrong source that it came from. *this does not reflect spreading activation B: this has nothing to do with spreading activation. This has to do with the recency effect. The recency effect suggests that objects are better recalled when they are the last thing a person it told/or shown. (opposite of primacy effect) C: no D. this is spreading activation! The answer choice states that when the subject is shown objects of similar category, it causes the subject to name objects in the same category. It activates one thing, leading to an activation of another The findings described in the passage suggest that memory for locations: A.is comparable to adults by nine years of age. B.is influenced by categorical knowledge. C.becomes more accurate with age. D.relies solely on recall of distances. - correct answer POE: C and D are out because D is strongly worded and C completely goes against the results in the graph (shows that adults have more mistakes).