COG exam 3 Questiona and Answers Solved Correctly Latest Update 2025
According to Baddeley we can hold how many items in our buffer - Answers 1-2
Serial Position Effect - Answers We remember beginning & end of info rather than middle
Proactive interference - Answers what you learned first hurt your ability to learn new info
Retroactive interference - Answers The most recent info can knock out what you learned before it
Release from proactive interference - Answers Blimp of attention in middle of info that spikes your
attention
Continuum by Craik & Lockhart - Answers The more specific/distinctive info you are give, the faster you
reply
Orthographic encoding - Answers STM-Can remember physical things like what it looks like
Acoustic Encoding - Answers What it sounds like or rhymes with, processes sounds
Semantic encoding - Answers LTM- made a deeper meaning for the word
Fan Effect - Answers The more you know about something, the slower you respond to questions
Self-Referent Coding - Answers Deeper than semantic, "do you like them?" adds opinion
Mnemonic Strategies - Answers Visual, Verbal, Keyword Method,
Visual Mnemonic - Answers Method of Loci, Pegword, Interacting Images
Method of Loci - Answers Connecting LOCations to a story in order to remember things
Pegword Method - Answers 1 is a bun->dog, 2 is a shoe->park, etc
Interacting Images - Answers Doll-Flag, think of a doll holding a flag
Young adults do ____ than kids or elderly by making up their own image for Interacting Images -
Answers better
Verbal Mnemonic - Answers Rhyming & Verse, Acrostic, Acronym, Keyword Method
Rhyming & Verse - Answers Putting it to a tune
Acrostic - Answers ROYGBV, a sentence form of an acronym
Acronym - Answers Words stand for a phrase- SCUBA, UCF
Keyword method - Answers Designed for foreign language learning, Trigo=tree=picture tree made of
wheat=wheat
, Dual Coding Theory - Answers Making a verbal or visual representation of info in LTM
Meaningful/Semantic Link - Answers Connecting verbal and visual
The meaningful/semantic link is built better when - Answers info comes in simultaneously (also if there
is kinesthetic info)
Stereotype Threat - Answers A stereotype made known to someone who falls into the category targeted
by it will most likely do worse performing
Ex of stereotype threat - Answers Women and math
Implicit threats - Answers presence of a male math teacher
Found by Yearbook study - Answers DROP IN MEMORY AFTER 5 YRS AND 30 YRS!!!! Visual memory is
better than verbal, recognition is better than recall, there is a separation between visual and verbal
Yearbook study was by - Answers Bahrick, Bahrick & Wittlinger
Students who get an A in a class are more/less likely to remember info later in life - Answers more
What was learned from the 8 year language study? - Answers It matters how we take in info.
Takeaways from Nazi study - Answers People could remember dates & numbers well, but not specific
questions- they rehearsed dates & numbers a lot
LTM is driven by - Answers rehearsal
Whisper down the lane study - Answers Leveling, Sharpening, Rationalizing
Leveling: - Answers Losing details like writing style, word choice, names
Sharpening - Answers Making something more important than it is
Rationalizing - Answers Making sense of things by using your own schema
Effort after meaning - Answers Encoding the gist not the actual details
Seductive Details - Answers Lightning- people remembered the burnt football jersey rather than the
details of the explanation
Frame - Answers Where we store schemas
ex of frames - Answers virtually anything
Default Value - Answers filling in info. from our own schemas
ex of default values - Answers Someone non-greek assuming when you say "sister" you mean biological
According to Baddeley we can hold how many items in our buffer - Answers 1-2
Serial Position Effect - Answers We remember beginning & end of info rather than middle
Proactive interference - Answers what you learned first hurt your ability to learn new info
Retroactive interference - Answers The most recent info can knock out what you learned before it
Release from proactive interference - Answers Blimp of attention in middle of info that spikes your
attention
Continuum by Craik & Lockhart - Answers The more specific/distinctive info you are give, the faster you
reply
Orthographic encoding - Answers STM-Can remember physical things like what it looks like
Acoustic Encoding - Answers What it sounds like or rhymes with, processes sounds
Semantic encoding - Answers LTM- made a deeper meaning for the word
Fan Effect - Answers The more you know about something, the slower you respond to questions
Self-Referent Coding - Answers Deeper than semantic, "do you like them?" adds opinion
Mnemonic Strategies - Answers Visual, Verbal, Keyword Method,
Visual Mnemonic - Answers Method of Loci, Pegword, Interacting Images
Method of Loci - Answers Connecting LOCations to a story in order to remember things
Pegword Method - Answers 1 is a bun->dog, 2 is a shoe->park, etc
Interacting Images - Answers Doll-Flag, think of a doll holding a flag
Young adults do ____ than kids or elderly by making up their own image for Interacting Images -
Answers better
Verbal Mnemonic - Answers Rhyming & Verse, Acrostic, Acronym, Keyword Method
Rhyming & Verse - Answers Putting it to a tune
Acrostic - Answers ROYGBV, a sentence form of an acronym
Acronym - Answers Words stand for a phrase- SCUBA, UCF
Keyword method - Answers Designed for foreign language learning, Trigo=tree=picture tree made of
wheat=wheat
, Dual Coding Theory - Answers Making a verbal or visual representation of info in LTM
Meaningful/Semantic Link - Answers Connecting verbal and visual
The meaningful/semantic link is built better when - Answers info comes in simultaneously (also if there
is kinesthetic info)
Stereotype Threat - Answers A stereotype made known to someone who falls into the category targeted
by it will most likely do worse performing
Ex of stereotype threat - Answers Women and math
Implicit threats - Answers presence of a male math teacher
Found by Yearbook study - Answers DROP IN MEMORY AFTER 5 YRS AND 30 YRS!!!! Visual memory is
better than verbal, recognition is better than recall, there is a separation between visual and verbal
Yearbook study was by - Answers Bahrick, Bahrick & Wittlinger
Students who get an A in a class are more/less likely to remember info later in life - Answers more
What was learned from the 8 year language study? - Answers It matters how we take in info.
Takeaways from Nazi study - Answers People could remember dates & numbers well, but not specific
questions- they rehearsed dates & numbers a lot
LTM is driven by - Answers rehearsal
Whisper down the lane study - Answers Leveling, Sharpening, Rationalizing
Leveling: - Answers Losing details like writing style, word choice, names
Sharpening - Answers Making something more important than it is
Rationalizing - Answers Making sense of things by using your own schema
Effort after meaning - Answers Encoding the gist not the actual details
Seductive Details - Answers Lightning- people remembered the burnt football jersey rather than the
details of the explanation
Frame - Answers Where we store schemas
ex of frames - Answers virtually anything
Default Value - Answers filling in info. from our own schemas
ex of default values - Answers Someone non-greek assuming when you say "sister" you mean biological
