A. more difficult to learn
B. easier to learn
C. learned with equivalent ease
D. more susceptible to the serial position effect
Related Mcqs:
- The tilt illusion, the luminance contrast effect and the color illusion are examples of what type of contrast effect?
A. Before-effects
B. After-effects
C. Waterfall illusions
D. Perceptual illusions - The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___________________ effect?
A. next-in-line
B. misinformation
C. serial position
D. spacing - Associating a list of items you need to remember with a sequence of specific places is called __________________?
A. encoding specificity
B. chunking
C. the method of Loci
D. cognitive mapping - Rasheed watches as customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line. He decides the customer must be a real “idiot” to miss the sign that indicates Rasheed’s checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items. Rasheed’s attribution for the cause of the customer’s behavior is consistent with_________?
A. drawing an illusory correlation
B. false consensus effect
C. the fundamental attribution error
D. a defensive attribution - Which TWO of the following statements are true of simultaneous contrast illusions? 1. In the simultaneous tilt illusion, vertical stripes appear tilted away from the tilt of their surrounding stripes. 2. In the luminance illusion, a grey patch appears darker when surrounded by a dark area than when surrounded by a light area. 3 A purple patch appears slightly closer to blue when surrounded by red, and closer to red when seen against a blue background. 4. Visual illusion effect only exist for motion.
A. 1 & 3
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 2 & 4 - The Law “similar things give rise to similar things” is called law of:
A. Similarity
B. Dissimilarity
C. Recurrence
D. None of these - The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called __________________?
A. shaping
B. acquisition
C. discrimination
D. generalization - Those items that are most likely to be forgotten are those ___________________?
A. with the least digits/letters
B. at the beginning of a long list
C. in the middle of a long list
D. at the end of a long list - Our short-term memory span is approximately ________________ items?
A. 2
B. 5
C. 7
D. 10 - In general, people attach concepts and attributes to items and events. This knowledge is used to categorize and understand new stimuli and is best known as a person’s ___________________?
A. algorithm
B. heuristic
C. schema
D. mental set
