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Treisman’s attenuation model explains the cocktail party effect through:

In class we replicated the McDaniels et al. (2014) Builders and Diggers category learning experiment. Half of the class learned to categorize Builder and Digger animals using a simple rule, while the other half focused on perceptual similarities. At test, new animals of two types were presented: good transfer items and bad transfer items. Good transfer items were perceptually similar to the category for whom the rule applied. Bad transfer items met the rule for belonging to one category, but were more perceptually similar to the other category. What was the pattern of reuslts in this experiment? 

Murphy & Allopenna’s (1994) finding that causal categories are learned faster than arbitrary ones supports:

Henry Molaison (H.M.), had surgery to remove his hippocampus and medial temporal lobe. Afterwards, he could learn some new things, such as learning to read mirror inverted text, but he  never learned to recognize the researchers who worked with him day after day. This pattern demonstrates: 

One way to turn an ill-defined question into a well-defined question is to

Which of the following is NOT a problem-solving method/strategy?

What is one benefit of using PsycINFO over Google Scholar for identifying sources for a research paper? 

What is the relation between concepts and categories?

Retrograde amnesia primarily affects: