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Chapter 7 Post Lecture Questions
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- 1The n-back task is use to measure working memory capacity. What else have researchers tried to use the n-back for?increasing intelligence
- 2Foroughi et al (2016) were interested in investigating placebo effects in working memory training. Their findings suggestthe benefit from cogntive training is largely due to expectiations
- 3Patients with Korsakoff's syndrome experience memory problems fromvitamin B deficiency
- 4If you were completing a lexical decision task and were presented with the word "paper", what word would be most likely to happen if you were next presented with the word pencilyou would be quicker to respond; spreading activation
- 5Dan Simons (the researcher involved in the classic "gorilla experiment") conducted a large review of the literature on brain training and concluded thatthese programs were not effective
- 6If you are taking this exam in the room where we have our lectures your retrieval may benefit from what principle?context-dependent learning
- 7Working memory training might improve ___________________?performance on similar tasks
- 8Patients who suffer from amnesia have similar lesions where?medial temporal lobe
- 9Extraordinary claims requireextraordinary evidence.
- 10W_r_ _em is an example of aword fragment used in implicit memory tests
- 11A double dissociation would supportmultiple memory systems
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