Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
Experimental Support for Assimilation A variety of research supports the as- similation principle. One kind of support comes fro ...
The advantage of processing for meaning is not limited to verbal informa- tion. Subjects were better at recognizing pictures of ...
Constructionist theories, on the other hand, imply that there is no all-purpose memory system. Memory is instead a byproduct of ...
given both the prior knowledge and the imagery instructions did recall sub- stantially more new facts than did subjects who did ...
environment and from the connections serving the various cognitive systems. Recollection typically involves making plausible gue ...
disagreement and the subsequent marriage. Furthermore, subjects who incor- rectly recalled minimal disagreement between Bob and ...
using the information implied by the question to reconstruct the details of the accident. If the question falsely implied that t ...
film, ask subjects to visualize the text, and present the memory test the next day. Source memory also tends to be poor if the m ...
is likely to affect recollection when it is relatively difficult for people to dis- criminate between the misinformation event a ...
In brief, hypnosis, which is supposed to help people relive past experiences, does not really work. The research on hypnosis and ...
though, that this belief may be false. Based on diary studies, there seems to be no reliable correlation between a woman’s mood ...
when there is misleading information that fools people into thinking that they have accurately reconstructed an event. In these ...
fact, the house in the film was white). The subjects then answered questions about the film (e.g., ‘‘What was the color of the h ...
the robber from a lineup. Some subjects were given photographs (not contain- ing the robber) taken from the scene of the crime, ...
that people often fail to remember facts that would help them solve a problem (Perfetto, Bransford, & Franks, 1983; Weisberg ...
‘‘levels of processing’’ section earlier in this chapter. The obvious educational implication of transfer appropriate processing ...
occurrence of other events. When memory for an event is undermined by events that precede it, the result is calledproactive inte ...
proactive interference. The subjects who read additional passages, whether presented before or after the critical passage, recal ...
all of the associations, facts, and lists of facts stored in memory compete with the target information for the attention of the ...
Experts become good at remembering information in their area of expertise because the portions of their cognitive system that su ...
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