WorksheetsClassical experiments in psychology chapter 29, 30, 31
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 4mins
What are Ebbinghaus’s famous nonsense syllables?
Meaningless one syllable words
Meaningful one syllable words
Common words that we use in everyday language picked to best test memory
Any three letter word
What is an example of a nonsense syllable word?
Weg
Rab
Kit
Loy
What did Ebbinghaus’s method of memory savings mean?
How many subjects did Ebbinghaus use?
One: Just himself
One: A fellow psychologist
Multiple: Himself included
Multiple: Excluding him, since he was taking notes
What did Bartlett discover about his participants' ability to remember certain shapes and pictures?
Participants would remember some things but would replace others with something familiar. They would develop schema
What are schemas/schematas?
Schemas are types of computer algorithms.
Schemas are pre-existing impressions we already have, and we use them to relate to a current event.
What did the participants do unconsciously to remember the story “The War of the Ghost?”
They created images of the story in their mind, instead of remembering the phrases of it.
They forgot the less entertaining parts entirely.
What happened to H.M. as a result of his surgery?
What are the types of memory that were discovered?
Declarative memory, Procedural memory, Implicit memory, Explicit memory
What was the problem that H.M. solved faster than other amnesiac patients?
Solving Einstein's Relativity Problem faster than other amnesiac patients
Solving The Ravine of Kale Problem faster than other amnesiac patients
Solving The Tower of Hanoi Problem faster than other amnesiac patients
Solving complex math equations faster than other amnesiac patients.
What was the main takeaway from the Case of H.M.?
The case shows the benefits of advanced memory techniques.
The case shows the effectiveness of cognitive therapy.
The case shows that memory is multiple systems working together.
