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v/ Correct 1. If a participant is read a long list of words and then asked to recall them, they are very likely to remember the first few words from the list. This is known as the effect. primacy v Feedback: Correct! The term used to describe a participant's increased likelihood of remembering the first few words on a list is the 'primacy effect’. You can remember this as follows: the first type of schooling that you go through is ‘primary" school. encoding recency incidence v/ Correct 1. Which of the following basic serial position curve experiment manipulations is correctly paired with its corresponding effect? Words in the list are read to the subject faster than normal — increased primacy effect Words in the list are read to the subject slower than normal — increased recency effect The subject completes a distractor task after hearing the words but before recalling them — decreased recency effect Feedback: Correct! Completing a distractor task after hearing a word list but before recalling the items will ‘wipe' a participant's short-term memory, reducing the improvements in recall associated with the recency effect. The subject sits in silence after hearing the words but before recalling them — decreased recency effect

+/ Correct . Tahib is a professional gamer who has been tasked to gather a few items for the annual camping trip with his family. Unfortunately, Tahib has a terrible memory and forgets to buy most of the camping items he was asked to; however, the items he happened to buy include a chess set, a checkers set, and a corn hole game set. Which of the following options explains why Tahib remembered to buy only these few items? Tahib processed all items at a deeper level. Tahib processed the items with semantic relevance at a deeper level. Feedback: Correct! According to the Levels of Processing principle, memory performance increases if connections are made between existing information and new information. In this case, Tahib is more likely to remember camping items related to gaming because he is a professional gamer. Tahib did not process any of the camping items at a sufficient level. Tahib processed the items with semantic relevance at a shallow level. Vv Correct 1. In regards to memory performance, which of the following options is unlikely to occur? Participants are more likely to recall items at the beginning of a list than those items written in the middle of the list. Participants who encode information at the deeper level are more likely to recall the information. After a 20-minute distractor task, participants would show an increased recency effect. v Feedback: Correct! We would not expect this result. When participants complete a distractor task after memorizing a list of items, we would see a decreased recency effect. Connecting words together in a sequence leads to better recall.