Memory and Cognitive Bias Quiz

What is semantic memory?

• Memory of specific events

• General knowledge of facts and people

• Unconscious memory of skills

• Mechanism for group knowledge retrieval

What is cognitive bias?

• Systematic error in thinking

• Memory of specific events

• Unconscious memory of skills

• Mechanism for group knowledge retrieval

What are cognitive misers?

• People who rely on immediate examples

• People who think and solve problems in less effortful ways

• People who have systematic errors in thinking

• People who rely too heavily on initial information

What happens to information in STM if it is not rehearsed?

• It is encoded into memory storage

• It is displaced by other stimuli

• It becomes a systematic error in thinking

• It is linked across domains

What is encoding?

• Initial learning of information by placing it into memory storage

• Linking information across domains

• Control and regulation of cognitive processes

• Relying on immediate examples

What is the framing effect?

• Systematic error in thinking

• Different reactions to a choice based on presentation

• Relying on immediate examples

• Memory of specific events

What is the misinformation effect?

• Systematic error in thinking

• Incorporation of misleading information into memory

• Memory of specific events

• Unconscious memory of skills

What is the phonological loop responsible for?

• Processing visual information.

• Processing auditory information.

• Processing emotional information.

• Processing spatial information.

What effect results in recalling information presented at the beginning of a list better?

• Recency effect

• Primacy effect

• Serial effect

• Middle effect

What is retrieval in the context of memory?

• The ability to store information.

• The ability to access information when needed.

• The ability to forget information.

• The ability to manipulate information.