Using Your Working Memory to Associate an Unfamiliar Textbook Glossary

question 49

Multiple Choice

Using your working memory to associate an unfamiliar textbook glossary term with other familiar words that are similar in meaning to the glossary term best illustrates

• A) automatic processing.
• B) the serial position effect.
• C) deep processing.
• D) the peg-word system.

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Definitions:

UCS

An acronym for "Unconditioned Stimulus," a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without prior learning.

CS

Common shorthand for "conditioned stimulus," a term from classical conditioning in psychology that refers to a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

UCR

Unconditioned Response, an automatic response to a stimulus that does not need to be learned.

CR

In conditioning, this stands for conditioned response, which is a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus.