PSY 280 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cognitive Psychology, Sketchpad, Interference Theory
10 Apr 2020
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Quiz chapter 4: george miller"s (1956) classic article, on the magical number seven, introduced the concept of a chunk. Answer: is the basic unit in short-term memory: one of the most widely cited articles in psychology is george. Miller"s (1956) article on the size of short-term memory. According to your text, this article was important in cognitive psychology because: Answer: it focused on a cognitive process mentally converting the stimulus at a time when most psychologists focused on people"s external behavior: imagine that you have volunteered to participate in some psychology research. The researcher tells you to look at several words briefly and then count backwards for 15 seconds before recalling those words. Answer: short-term memory: as chapter 4 discusses, john brown, lloyd peterson, and. Margaret peterson created a classic technique for assessing short- term memory. In this technique, people saw some stimuli, counted backwards by threes during the delay period, and then tried to recall the original stimuli.
