NPTEL Week-3 assignment-2023

Psychology of Learning

1) Researchers have long believed that memories form due to changes in the brain ___.
a. muscles
b. bones
c. blood
d. skull
e. neurons
Ans.= e
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.02) for better
understanding.

2) ___ refers to calling back the stored information in response to some cue for use in a process
or activity
a. Encoding
b. Storage
c. Registration
d. Retrieval
e. Forgetting
Ans.= d
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.03) for better
understanding.

3) The duration of the sensory register is ___

a. 1-3 seconds
b. 1-3 minutes
c. 15-30 seconds
d. 15-30 minutes
e. 1 hour
Ans.= a
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.13) for better
understanding.

4) Maintenance rehearsal in the context of short term memory is also known as ___
a. elaborative rehearsal
b. rote rehearsal
c. elaborative encoding
d. dual coding
e. visual imagery encoding
Ans.= b

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 Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.14) for better
understanding.

5) Which of the following is not a component of the working memory model?

a. Central executive
b. Visuo-spatial sketchpad
c. Short term memory
d. Episodic buffer
e. Phonological loop
Ans.= c
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.26-27) for better
understanding.

6) ___ describes our implicit knowledge of tasks that usually do not require conscious recall to
perform them
a. Procedural memory
b. Declarative memory
c. Semantic memory
d. Episodic memory
e. Collective memory
Ans.= a
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.31) for better
understanding.

7) The Levels of Processing theory in memory is given by ___

a. Atkinson & Shiffrin
b. Craik & Lockhart
c. Baddley
d. Piaget
e. Freud
Ans.= b
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.32) for better
understanding.

8) ___ processing is when we encode only the physical qualities of something.

a. Phonemic
b. Structural
c. Semantic
d. Deep
e. Elaborative
Ans.= b

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 Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.33) for better
understanding.

9) ___ refers to the cognitive capacity actually allocated to the task.

a. Mental load
b. Mental effort
c. Performance
d. Capacity load
e. Task load
Ans.= b
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.44) for better
understanding.

10) Which of the following is not a helpful way of improving memory?

a. Writing it down
b. Repetition
c. Taking a mental picture
d. Over-exerting yourself
e. Attaching meaning to it
Ans.= d
Solution: Please go through lecture notes of week-3 (slide no.49-50) for better
understanding.

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