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Using ONLY information gained from the chapter, answer the following questions in 200-350 words per question. Direct copying and pasting from any source is not permitted. Do not use quotes either – use your own words.

Please include the page number where you got your information. Traditional citations are not necessary

1. What does the term retention interval mean? How did Ebbinghaus study retention intervals and what did he find?
2.What are the four main parts of the cerebral cortex? What are the major functions of each?
3.What is the “Von Restorff” effect. Design a potential novel experiment that would examine if one could have a Von Restorff effect for face stimuli.
4.What is the irrelevant speech effect? What were the relevant results from Salame and Baddeley with respect to the irrelevant speech effect?
5.What is meant by the term lexical decision task. How does semantic priming affect lexical decision tasks?
6.What is the difference between accessibility and availability? Describe an actual experiment from the textbook that illustrates the difference between accessibility and availability (methods, results,interpretation) (hint: think encoding specificity here).
7.What is a cognitive map? Describe how semantic categories affect our cognitive maps.