A Research Participant Hears a Tone Followed by a Puff

question 121

Multiple Choice

A research participant hears a tone followed by a puff of air directed toward his eye.Later,he blinks when he hears the tone.Before ending the experiment,what could the researcher do in order to extinguish the blinking to that tone?

• A)present the tone alone repeatedly
• B)present the puff of air alone repeatedly
• C)increase the loudness of the tone
• D)increase the amount of air that is directed toward the eye

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Definitions:

Encoding Process

The initial learning of information; transforming sensory input into a form or code that can be stored in the memory.

Connectionist Process

A cognitive science theory where mental phenomena are described in terms of interconnected networks of simple and often uniform units.

Working Memory

An intellectual mechanism with constrained capabilities tasked with momentarily retaining data for processing purposes.

Baddeley's View

Refers to Alan Baddeley's model of working memory, which suggests it consists of multiple components, including the phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer, and central executive.