Professor Proust
COGNITION FREE RESPONSE QUESTION
Part A
 Point one:
 Population: What is it and how would you define it
or highlight it?

1.
This one should be easy, just state it. The population
is______________
ALL college students
Part A
 Point 2
 Random Sample
 How and why should he use it?
 Show you understand what a random sample is
 The definition or an example, specific and simple
 “choosing every tenth student from an alphabetized list of
college students”
Part A
 Point 3
 Random Assignment
 Which ones are correctly the experimental or a control group,
describe it.
 Exp….which will read children’s books
 Control…..which will not read the book
 State the principle directly, or plausible example.
 “Listing all participants alphabetically and assigning every
other participant to the experimental group”
Part B
 Point 1….label it, “Question 1, part B”
 Semantic encoding
 How does semantic encoding predict that the memories
reported on the survey will most likely not be personally
meaningful events
 “Students will recall these kinds of memories because they
were semantically encoded, and semantic encoding increases
the likelihood of retrieving memories”
Part B
 Point 2
 Recall
 Identify it. Memories that the students write out on the survey
are products of recall.
 Why?…because these memories are not currently in conscious
awareness.
 “participants recall these memories without cues, in contrast
to recognizing them from a list of common memories”
Part B
 Point 3
 Recognition
 Identify it, common memories that students circle on
the survey are retrieved through the process of
recognition
 Retrieval process involves participants identifying
the events on the survey that match their memories
Part B
 Point 4
 Retroactive Interference
 Discuss R.I. could prevent participants from retrieving some
childhood memories
 Define it or example of it- “More recently encoded events
interfere with the retrieval of older memories”
 Example of R.I.

“Not being able to remember your kindergarten teacher’s name
because your more recent memory of your fifth-grade teacher’s
name interferes with you recall.”
Part C
 Part 1
 Misinformation effect
-In this case….Proust? How did he ask about childhood
memories?
1.
2.
Participants first read the list of common memories and
exposure to these “leading questions”
This could cause what? Construct false memories of the
events that actually happened to them.