PSY 100-Exam 3-UWL Questions With
Correct Answers
What is memory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The capacity to store and retrieve
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information
What did Plato compare memory to? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(Who compared
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memory to) A wax tablet, if something is imprinted onto the memory, it stays
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there as an exact copy.
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What is the current way of thinking of memory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Computer processing (is how we think about).
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What is encoding? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Code the information and put into
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memory.
What is storage? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Maintain in memory.
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What is retrieval? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Recover from memory
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What is the computer analogy? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Encoding = typing,
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storage = saved file, retrieval = opening file.
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What is a code? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How information is represented.
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, What are the different types of codes? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Linguistic/verbal
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code (words) and Visual code (what you see, images).
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What is recoding? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Changing the way information is
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stored.
What are two types of recoding? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Reorganization
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(different form) and Elaboration (going to outer sources for more information)
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What are the different levels of processing? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Superficial/shallow, phonemic, deep | |
Give an example of superficial/shallow level of processing. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Anything visual. Ex. is the word is capital letters? Stim. hat DOG | | | | | | | | | | |
Give an example of phonemic level of processing. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Anything acoustic. Ex. does the word rhyme with cat? Stim. hat, dog, pen, bat
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Give an example of deep/semantic level of processing. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Ex. Would the word fit in the sentence: Thy boy wore the ___? Stim. hat, dog,
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shirt, pen |
What are ways to enrich encoding? And explain them. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Elaboration (link a stimulus to other information), Self-referent (decide how or if
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info is personally relevant), Visual imagery (create visual image as well as verbal)
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Correct Answers
What is memory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The capacity to store and retrieve
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information
What did Plato compare memory to? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(Who compared
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memory to) A wax tablet, if something is imprinted onto the memory, it stays
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there as an exact copy.
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What is the current way of thinking of memory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Computer processing (is how we think about).
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What is encoding? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Code the information and put into
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memory.
What is storage? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Maintain in memory.
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What is retrieval? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Recover from memory
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What is the computer analogy? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Encoding = typing,
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storage = saved file, retrieval = opening file.
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What is a code? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How information is represented.
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, What are the different types of codes? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Linguistic/verbal
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code (words) and Visual code (what you see, images).
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What is recoding? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Changing the way information is
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stored.
What are two types of recoding? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Reorganization
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(different form) and Elaboration (going to outer sources for more information)
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What are the different levels of processing? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Superficial/shallow, phonemic, deep | |
Give an example of superficial/shallow level of processing. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Anything visual. Ex. is the word is capital letters? Stim. hat DOG | | | | | | | | | | |
Give an example of phonemic level of processing. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Anything acoustic. Ex. does the word rhyme with cat? Stim. hat, dog, pen, bat
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Give an example of deep/semantic level of processing. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Ex. Would the word fit in the sentence: Thy boy wore the ___? Stim. hat, dog,
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shirt, pen |
What are ways to enrich encoding? And explain them. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Elaboration (link a stimulus to other information), Self-referent (decide how or if
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info is personally relevant), Visual imagery (create visual image as well as verbal)
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