In an Experiment by Harold Kelley (1950), Some College Students

question 144

Multiple Choice

In an experiment by Harold Kelley (1950) , some college students were told that their guest lecturer was a warm person, while others were told that he was a cold person. Those students who were told that he was a warm person evaluated him more positively than those who had been told he was cold. This demonstrates that schemas can be subject to __________.

• A) priming
• B) alteration
• C) flaws
• D) change

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Definitions:

Short-Term Memory

The capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

Echoic

Pertaining to auditory processing, specifically the memory system that retains auditory information.

Atkinson And Shiffrin

Atkinson and Shiffrin developed the multi-store model of memory, which proposes that memory consists of three stores: a sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory that provides the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.