Psychology 2B - university of Edinburgh questions with answers

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Loftus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔eyewitness testimony and
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cars "hitting" or "smashing into" each other
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Ebbinghaus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔created the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



forgetting curve and serial position effect in memory,
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learned lists of 16 nonsense syllables
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change blindness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Simons and
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Levin - asking for directions and person changes
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mere exposure effect - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
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phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



increases liking of them, if they are not inherently
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unpleasant


consolidation + types - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔systems |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



consolidation or synaptic consolidation. changes in brain |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



activity are translated into permanent structural changes
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in the brain, LTP = long-term potentiation. neurons that
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fire together wire together
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,encoding specificity hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔events are easier to remember when the context at
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retrieval is similar to the context at encoding
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levels of processing model - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔model of memory that assumes information that is
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more "deeply processed," or processed according to its
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meaning rather than just the sound or physical
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characteristics of the word or words, will be remembered |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



more efficiently and for a longer period of time: structural
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encoding, phonemic encoding, semantic encoding as
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stages. Craik and Lockhart
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latent inhibition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔difficulty in
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establishing classical conditioning to a conditioned|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



stimulus we've repeatedly experienced alone, that is,
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without the unconditioned stimulus (as a neutral
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stimulus)


ventrolateral prefrontal cortex - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔activates and maintains info in WM, LTM encoding |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




dorsolateral prefrontal cortex - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔manipulates info in WM, encoding, LTM monitoring |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\

, hippocampus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔contextual |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



memory, explicit LTM |\ |\




perirhinal cortex - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔object memory
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and perception, item representations (familiarity)
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entorhinal cortex - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔gist memory
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parahippocampal cortex - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔scene |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



memory, context processing, semantic memory
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7 meaningful chunks - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Miller.
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Short-term memory |\




LTM is divided into different components - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔multiple memory systems approach
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recognition memory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



identification of a stimulus that was encountered earlier.
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forced choice or single probe recognition. familiarity and
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recollection


Recall - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A measure of memory in
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which the person must retrieve information learned
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