Cognition free response question Professor Proust Cognition free response question

Part A Point one: Population: What is it and how would you define it or highlight it? This one should be easy, just state it. The population is______________ ALL college students

Part A Point 2 Random Sample How and why should he use it? Show you understand what a random sample is The definition or an example, specific and simple “choosing every tenth student from an alphabetized list of college students”

Part A Point 3 Random Assignment Which ones are correctly the experimental or a control group, describe it. Exp….which will read children’s books Control…..which will not read the book State the principle directly, or plausible example. “Listing all participants alphabetically and assigning every other participant to the experimental group”

Part B Point 1….label it, “Question 1, part B” Semantic encoding How does semantic encoding predict that the memories reported on the survey will most likely not be personally meaningful events “Students will recall these kinds of memories because they were semantically encoded, and semantic encoding increases the likelihood of retrieving memories”

Part B Point 2 Recall Identify it. Memories that the students write out on the survey are products of recall. Why?…because these memories are not currently in conscious awareness. “participants recall these memories without cues, in contrast to recognizing them from a list of common memories”

Part B Point 3 Recognition Identify it, common memories that students circle on the survey are retrieved through the process of recognition Retrieval process involves participants identifying the events on the survey that match their memories

Part B Point 4 Retroactive Interference Discuss R.I. could prevent participants from retrieving some childhood memories Define it or example of it- “More recently encoded events interfere with the retrieval of older memories” Example of R.I. “Not being able to remember your kindergarten teacher’s name because your more recent memory of your fifth-grade teacher’s name interferes with you recall.”

Part C Part 1 Misinformation effect -In this case….Proust? How did he ask about childhood memories? Participants first read the list of common memories and exposure to these “leading questions” This could cause what? Construct false memories of the events that actually happened to them.