Chapter 7

Question 1

Rey Complex Figure

Answer 1

Measures memory for previously studied image (complicated image)

Question 2

Barlett

Answer 2

men storage/retrevial, distortion=better story: level, sharpen, transform

Question 3

Elizabeth Loftus

Answer 3

false memories

Question 4

Increase eye witness accuracy 4

Answer 4

double bind, appropriate instructions, sequential lineups, computer interface

Question 5

Misinformation effect

Answer 5

When recall of an event is altered by introducing misleading post-event information

Question 6

Reality Monitoring

Answer 6

Did I leave the window rolled down in my car or did I just imagine it?

Question 7

Source Monitoring; destination memory errors

Answer 7

Did I read it or did someone tell me? forget who you’ve told a story too

Question 8

Classical View: categories, concepts

Answer 8

A subdivision of similar objects or events (4 legs), A mental representation of an object or event – qualitative (dog). Faster at categories

Question 9

prototype view

Answer 9

sub categories not so rigorous, (con: lack definitive borders, context dependent)

Question 10

exemplar view

Answer 10

Concepts include representations of specific examples (friendly golder retriever), atypical explained by lack of similarity (penguins don’t fly) more explemplars of something, the faster you process it (birds fly)

Question 11

Hierarchical Semantic Network; lexical decision task

Answer 11

road map to retrieval, nodes; linked words faster (bread and butter vs, bread and brain). Familiar=quicker (animal vs mammal)

Question 12

Spreading Activation Model

Answer 12

web style, semi hierarchical, lose structure. activation speeds in parallel.

Question 13

ACT Model

Answer 13

Adaptive Control of Thought: distinguishes memory systems (semantic, working, procedural) (sense info—>working men—>stored—>semantic—>retrieved—>working—>matched—>procedural—>executed—>working)

Question 14

Connectionist Model

Answer 14

concepts stored as distributed representations, patterns develop through experience, excite/inhibit

Question 15

Hebbian Learning: Donald Hebb

Answer 15

neural plasticity: brain changed w experience (2 neutrons that fire together get faster the more they fire)

Question 16

Oliver Selfridge

Answer 16

feature nets: Letters and words formed from their basic feature components (pandemonium model: more freq used the higher the activation)