Question

A researcher designs an experiment to study human memory. In the first part of this experiment, participants will be shown a list (List A) of words (i.e., duck, book, shoe, cart, wolf, pear, swan, road). Participants will be asked to judge if each of the words contains letter “e” in it. In the second part of this experiment, participants will be shown another word list (List B). Some of them appear also in List A (i.e., duck, book, shoe, wolf), while others (i.e., cock, milk, frog, kiwi) do not. Participants will be asked to judge whether each of these words refers to an animal or not. The expected results are that for animal words in List B, the average response time for words that also appear in List A (i.e., duck, wolf) will be shorter than those appear only in List B (i.e., cock, frog). Assume that these two groups (duck & wolf vs. cock & frog) of words are matched in word frequency. What kind of memory do the expected results reflect, elaborate your rationale?

Answer 1

COGNITIVE / THEORY:

cognitive is built around a persons actions, thoughts, personality and circumstance. cognitive development is about how the person thinks, learns,understands, processes information, intelligence and reasoning. problem solving assessment.

able to reason out the given experiment. to check the development state of an individual. ability to understand and differentiate is a part of learning. the development of brain is measured with tests or puzzles to be able to check the capability and reasoning and differentiating process.

to study mental process of an individual. thinking, perception and decision making.

ability to judge, from the above experiment whether each of these words refers to an animal or not.

cognitive psychology refers to recognition of high frequency words faster than low frequency words. a recognition judgement based on familiar information.or related to elaborative relative information created between listed items and items in memory.

elaborative process has a positive influence on recognition.

extensive elaboration demands judgement based on familiarity

multiple presentation list increases recognition performance while increasing maintenance process.