1. Cognition free response question
Professor Proust
Cognition free response question

2. 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

3. 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”

4. 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”

5. 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”

6. 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”

7. 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

8. 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.”

9. 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.