Questions for Test 2

Cognitive Psychology

Fall 2000

 

This test is worth 150 points.

 

1.                  What are the most important implications for Bartlett’s work on short story memory?

 

2.                  How does short-term memory relate to consciousness?  Use data describing the function of STM and your own introspection to justify your response.

 

3.                  Compare how ACT* and connectionism would say that your memory for the word cognition is represented in long-term memory.

 

4.                  Describe how human decision making works.  Are logical reasoning and statistical reasoning good benchmarks to compare decision making?