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WorksheetsSemantic Memory PSYCH 202
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is Semantic Memory?
The method of which our brains catalogue information
The ability to recollect things easier the longer ago they were experienced.
The enormous store house of information that humans have readily available
The act of forming biases towards some memories over others in your subconscious
Who pioneered the experimental study of memory?
Allan M. Collins
Herman Ebbinghaus
Ross M. Quillian
Sigmund Freud
What was the goal of the experiment?
To see how accurately the students identify the statements as true or false.
To see how quickly the students identify the statements as true or false.
To see how many statements the students could identify.
To see how many students could pick half of the correct answers only.
What did the results show?
A relationship between older students and correct answers.
An inverse relationship between the speed of the answer and the accuracy of the answer.
A correlation between type of question asked and type of answer.
A correlation between reaction time and concept pairing.
What should we expect Collins and Quillians study to show us?
The more general the memory, the less they deconstruct and the more they remember.
The more specific the memory, the less one deconstructs and the less the generalise.
The more general the memory. the more one deconstructs, and the more they remember.
The more specific the memory, the more one deconstructs, and the less they remember
Who was the forerunner of cognitive psychology?
Frederic Bartlett
Douglas G. Mook
Brian Talk
Ross M. Quillian
Where was Allan M. Collins born?
Pennsylvania
New Zealand
Georgia
New Jersey
What is Property Inheritance?
General categories more sooner lost when they have less subordinate categories.
Subordinate categories inherit the properties of connected subordinate categories.
General categories are more easily recalled over specific categories.
Subordinate categories inherit the properties of more general categories.
