PYC3703 – Cognitive Psychology
2021 – Semester 1 and Semester 2 – Assignment 4
Question #1:
Familiarity is associated with semantic memory because it is not associated with the circumstances under which knowledge was acquired. Recollection is associated with episodic memory because it in...
This assignment is compulsory; you must submit it! It is based on chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and
13 of the prescribed book: Cognitive Psychology (2018).
Note that this assignment contributes towards your year mark (see page 8 of this tutorial
letter). Select the most appropriate option in cases where you think that more than one could
be correct.
QUESTION 1
Familiarity is associated with semantic memory because it is not associated with the
circumstances under which knowledge was acquired. Recollection is associated with episodic
memory because it includes details about what was happening when the knowledge was
acquired and an awareness of the event as it was experienced in the past. These two ways of
remembering have been measured using the - - - - - procedure.
1. semanticization of remote
2. remember/know
3. personal semantic
4. autobiographical
Option 2 is the correct answer. Petrican et al. (2010) determined how people’s memory for
public events changes over time by presenting descriptions of events that had happened over
a 50-year period to older adults (average age = 63 years) and asking them to respond
remember if they had a personal experience associated with the event or recollected seeing
details about the event on TV or in the newspaper. They were to respond know if they were
familiar with the event but couldn’t recollect any personal experience or details related to
media coverage of the event. If they couldn’t remember the event at all, they were to respond
don’t know (CP, p. 179).
QUESTION 2
Which one of the following is the best example of a specifically explicit memory task?
1. You are shown a set of photos, and you are asked which ones are familiar because
you have seen them before.
2. You supply free associations more quickly to words you have seen before than to
unfamiliar words.
3. You are shown some word fragments, and you complete the words more quickly if you
have seen them before.
4. You dial a familiar phone number more quickly than an unfamiliar phone number.
Option 1 is correct. Note that you are required to identify familiar photos, and the task therefore
specifically probes explicit memory (see CP, p.178). In the other tasks both explicit and implicit
memory processes are involved.
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