348 Exam 1 Questions With Correct
Detailed Answers.
What is a piece of evidence that supported Baddeley's claim that executive control is
needed for task switching? - ANSWER- Biggest switch cost when executive control is
concurrently taxed; thus executive control must help explain task switching
- ability to alternate between reciting days
What is one potentially helpful implication of the Zeigarnik effect for everyday life? -
ANSWER- Memory prediction- interrupted tasks better remembered than completed
tasks
- uncompleted or unsolved recall is much higher than the ones that were solved or
completed
What did the article on delay discounting conclude about age, as it relates to future
orientation and delay discounting? - ANSWER- When you are younger you tend to have
a short term goal in view but as you get older you start to see a long term clearer. When
you are younger you have a steeper function compared to someone who is more
mature and older.
-Think about the video with the mallows and if you wait then you get more, but if you
dont wait you just get the one
What is a general prediction we may make about delay discounting during situations of
grave danger? - ANSWER- When you are in grave danger you dont have a plan b. You
focus on the task at hand and you want to get out of it.
- think about the example he gave about the two buttons, you can have an unpleasant
pic show up for a short amount of time immediately but longer later, or you just have the
longer clip now and the rest of them will be short
study of pigeon's choices between smaller-sooner or larger-later rewards? what was
this main study's finding (commitment)? - ANSWER- initially the birds chose the smaller
reward but when they had to work equally as hard for both rewards they were choosing
the larger one, and then eventually they would move to the original two buttons and
would wait for a larger-later reward. They committed to the time with waiting
What is a piece of evidence supporting the claim (Logan) that the explicit-task-cueing
paradigm (used in studies of task switching) does not necessarily provide evidence of
the operation of executive control - ANSWER- Cue repetitions themselves may affect
processing time and therefore is independent of any executive control processes
What is the general logic that has been used to attempt the study of the central
executive by using dual tasks? - ANSWER- Major function of the central executive is to
