Cognitive Psychology Test 3B

Front 1

Shiffrin and Schneider: Target search trials

Back 1

- Consistent (always the same) vs Inconsistent (regularly changing) mapping.
- Final RT's faster (by 850 ms) for consistent mapping.

Front 2

Consistent mapping

Inconsistent mapping

Back 2

C: told to look for "a" and "q"

Constantly being told to look for different pairs

Front 3

Repetitive practice

Back 3

Consistent group gets this practice, inconsistent does not.

Front 4

Automatic Letter Encoding (Posner and Boles, 1971)

Back 4

See a letter and identity what that letter is.

- Used a tone and told p's to press a button when they heard it.

- Measured rxn time of tone and letter recognition

- interested in process of encoding.

Front 5

Cognitive Processes required for encoding

Back 5

1: Comparison
2: Decision
3: Response selection
4: Response initiation

Front 6

Rote rehearsal

Back 6

no guarantee of long term memory

Front 7

CCC's (Consonant Consonant Consonant)

Back 7

Meaningless stimuli used in Brown's study of Free recall while performing a secondary task.

Front 8

Miller's magic number

Back 8

7 +/- 2

Front 9

Miller's list of t-b-r items, what was the IV and DV?

Back 9

IV: List length

DV: Serial recall