Cognitive Processing Review

This type of memory is relatively stable and most resistant to decay throughout life.

• Implicit memory

• Procedural memory

• Semantic memory

• Episodic memory

In the context of the two-system view of thinking, what is an example of a cognitive task that requires controlled thinking?

• Riding a bicycle

• Detecting a scent

• Noticing a color

• Deciding where to go to college

What is the correct explanation of the serial position effect?

• It is the tendency to recall the middle and last items better than the first items in the list.

• It is the tendency to recall the first and last items on a list better than the items in the middle section.

• It is the tendency to recall the last items on a list better than the other items.

• It is the tendency to recall the last items on a list better than the other items.

Schemas are best described as

• Strategies used to improve memory and problem-solving skills.

• Innate, genetically determined structures of the brain.

• Frameworks of knowledge and beliefs that organise and interpret information.

• Automatic and unconscious mental processes.

What describes System 1 thinking?

• Slow, serial, effortful, consciously monitored, deliberately controlled.

• Fast, automatic, effortless, associative, implicit, emotionally charged.

• It is the idea that thinking and decision-making are separate concepts.

• Intuitive, instinctive, based on gut feelings and past experiences.

What describes System 2 thinking?

• Intuitive, instinctive, based on gut feelings and past experiences.

• Quick, automatic, and effortless.

• Emotional, impulsive, and irrational.

• Deliberate, analytical, and effortful.

When hearing a list of words like bed, snore, drowsy, and snooze, some people may also falsely recall hearing the word sleep. Which below best explains this?

• Multi-store model

• Schema theory

• Reconstructive memory

• Memory traces

Memory of facts and concepts

• Semantic Memory

• Implicit Memory

• Explicit Memory

• Episodic Memory

Processes that you have memorized and know, but the details are not highly focused on

• Implicit Memory

• Explicit Memory

• Episodic Memory

• Echoic Memory

Which among the choices below can be used as a counterargument to the multi-store model of memory?

• Schema processing

• Bottom-up and top-down processing

• Normative model

• Levels of processing