Exam 8: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior

Based on research described in your text (Bargh et al.,1996),which of the following statements is true of priming effects

Functional fixedness reflects an effect of schemas on problem solving.

Consider the concept of cognitive accessibility.In the context of cognitive biases,the term accessible is most similar to the term _________.

Which of the following describes episodic memory

Psychologists sometimes use the adjective _________ to refer to things that attract our attention.

Short-term memory is limited both in the amount of information it can hold at one time and in how long it can hold information.Describe several strategies one might use to overcome the capacity and duration limitations of short-term memory.How might one use these strategies when studying for course materials Provide concrete examples

On your computer desktop,you can see all sorts of different files,each immediately accessible.Because you are actively working on them,and because you can open them whenever you want,these files are analogous to the information held in:

Which of the following is NOT among the neurotransmitters mentioned in your text as important in memory

Which of the following is a definition of the confirmation bias

Which of the following is the best reason for why we have trouble remembering the license plate number of a car that we just passed ten minutes ago

Over time,you have learned to salivate at the mere sight of a chili pepper.This type of learning reflects _________ memory

According to the ________ effect,_________ practice leads to better learning than __________ practice.

Rehearsal serves to:

Sandy,a true believer in astrology,reads in her horoscope that today is her lucky day.She gets so excited that she spills coffee all over herself,necessitating a change of clothes.As a result,she is late for work and for a very important meeting,which in turn gets her into serious trouble with her boss.That evening,her brother is taken to the emergency room.On her way to visit him,Sandy finds a dime in the hospital parking lot.What does research on the confirmation bias suggest that Sandy will do

Implicit memory is often studied through experiments that use ________.

Flashbulb memories:

Which of the following sequences best reflects the order in which memory processes occur,from first to last

Research participants are asked to judge whether or not a string of letters forms a word in English.They are first given the string CABBAGE.Based on what you know about categories and spreading activation,which of the following strings might participants then judge the most rapidly

Which of the following is true about studying

A ________ is a meaningful group of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short- term memory.