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Due on 2024-02-21, 23:59 IST.

Course Assignment submitted on 2024-02-21, 18:34 IST

outline
All questions are compulsory.
Marks [1x10= 10]
About
NPTEL () 1) The calling to mind of previously stored information is known as: 1 point

retrieval
How does an
NPTEL encoding
online storage
course
forgetting
work? ()
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 0:
Accepted Answers:
Prerequisite
retrieval
()

2) Information is held in _____ for 20 to 30 seconds. 1 point

Week 01:
History and sensory memory
Research
short-term memory
Methods of
Cognitive long-term memory
Psychology secondary memory
()
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 02: Accepted Answers:
Object short-term memory
Perception
and
3) In Waugh and Norman's probe digit task, 1 point
Recognition faster presentation rates improved performance.
()
faster presentation rates decreased performance.

Week 03: presentation rate had no effect on performance.

Attentional only rates slower than 3-second intervals decreased performance.
Processes
No, the answer is incorrect.
and Score: 0
Cognition () Accepted Answers:
presentation rate had no effect on performance.
Week 04:
Memory 4) Some experts describe memory as a ______, while others believe it is a ______. 1 point
Introduction
secret; journey
()
checklist; blueprint
Lec 1 : structure; process
Memory
ball of string; pool of water
Introduction
(unit? Yes, the answer is correct.
unit=36&lesso Score: 1
n=37) Accepted Answers:
structure; process
Lec 2 : Short
Term Memory
(unit?
5) You recently bought a new phone and had to change your number. However, your 1 point
unit=36&lesso old phone number keeps interfering with your ability to remember your new one. This is an
n=38) example of ______.

Lec 3 : retroactive interference

Working
proactive interference
Memory (unit?
unit=36&lesso executive retrieval
n=39) overactive retrieval
Text Notes Yes, the answer is correct.
(unit? Score: 1
unit=36&lesso Accepted Answers:
n=40) proactive interference

Week 4:
Feedback form
6) Sternberg’s classic work on searching for information from short-term memory 1 point
(unit? indicated that the search process is:
unit=36&lesso
n=41)
serial.
self-terminating.
Quiz:
Assignment 4 exhaustive.
(assessment? both serial and exhaustive.
name=116)
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 05:
Accepted Answers:
Long Term
both serial and exhaustive.
Memory ()

7) Higher working memory capacity means that an individual: 1 point

Week 06:
Memory of is more susceptible to interference.
General
has quicker reaction times in identifying target letters.
Knowledge ()
Week 07: is better able to control his/her cognitive focus.
Concept has lower ability to reason from premises
Formation ()
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 08: Accepted Answers:
Visual and is better able to control his/her cognitive focus.
Spatial
8) Information in short-term memory is assumed to be coded primarily by: 1 point
Memory ()

sound.
Week 09:
meaning.
Human
Language visual appearance.
Skills () both sound and meaning

Yes, the answer is correct.

Week 10: Score: 1
Thought Accepted Answers:
Process and sound.
Problem
Solving ()
9) Unattended information is stored briefly in: 1 point

Week 11: sensory memory.

Reasoning ()
short-term memory.
long-term memory.
Week 12:
Decision working memory
Making () Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Live Accepted Answers:
Sessions () sensory memory.

10) Repeating a phone number to yourself to hold it in memory while you dial it would 1 point
use which component of working memory?

the visuospatial sketchpad

the phonological loop
the episodic buffer
both the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the phonological loop