Remembering and Judging
When asked to come up with the name of a bird, people are much more likely to say “robin” than they are to say “ostrich”. This is because:
robin is a shorter word
robin begins with the letter “r”
robins are prototypical
robins are smaller
robins are prototypical
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Shandra is convinced that her neighbour, Joe, is cruel to his dog. She notices every time Joe shouts at the dog or jerks its lead but she doesn’t seem to notice the times when Joe plays with the dog or gives it treats. This is an example of:A. misinformation
B. anterograde amnesia
C. proactive interference
D. confirmation bias
After a stroke, 22-year-old Malik can no longer remember his childhood friends or the vacations he took with his family. Malik is suffering from:
A. retrograde amnesia
B. anterograde amnesia
C. functional fixedness
D. dyslexia
In stage models of memory, information moves from:
A. sensory to short-term to long-term memory
B. sensory to long-term to working memory
C. short-term to long-term to explicit memory
D. sensory to eidetic to iconic memory
________ interference works backwards, and ________ interference works forwards.
A. primary, recency
B. recency, primacy
C. proactive, retroactive
D. retroactive, proactive
Classical conditioning effects are an example of:
A. eidetic memory
B. primary memory
C. retroactive interference
D. implicit memory
Our tendency to focus on information that is consistent with our beliefs and to ignore contradictory information is called:
A. contradiction avoidance
B. confirmation bias
C. counterfactual thinking
D. functional fixedness
________ memory is to hearing as ________ memory is to seeing.
A. echoic, eidetic
B. eidetic, echoic,
C. working, short-term
D. short-term, working
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