GWD18-7and10 The term “episodic memory” was introduced by Tulving to refer to what he considered a uniquely human capacity— Line the ability to recollect specific past events, (5) to travel back into the past in one’s own mind—as distinct from the capacity simply to use information acquired through past experiences. Subsequently, Clayton et al. developed criteria to test for episodic (10) memory in animals. According to these criteria, episodic memories are not of individual bits of information; they involve multiple components of a single event “bound” together. Clayton sought to (15) examine evidence of scrub jays’ accurate memory of “what,” “where,” and “when” information and their binding of this infor- mation. In the wild, these birds store food for retrieval later during periods of food (20) scarcity. Clayton’s experiment required jays to remember the type, location, and freshness of stored food based on a unique learning event. Crickets were stored in one location and peanuts in another. Jays (25) prefer crickets, but crickets degrade more quickly. Clayton’s birds switched their preference from crickets to peanuts once the food had been stored for a certain length of time, showing that they retain (30) information about the what, the where, and the when. Such experiments cannot, however, reveal whether the birds were reexperiencing the past when retrieving the information. Clayton acknowledged this by using the term “episodic-like” memory. 6. Q7: The primary purpose of the passage is to - explain how the findings of a particular experiment have been interpreted and offer an alternative interpretation
- describe a particular experiment and point out one of its limitations
- present similarities between human memory and animal memory
- point out a flaw in the argument that a certain capacity is uniquely human
- account for the unexpected behavior of animal subjects in a particular experiment
我选D,为什么答案是B,这个答案是不是有问题呢? 9. Q10: In order for Clayton’s experiment to show that scrub jays have episodic-like memory, which of the following must be true in the experiment?
- Some of the jays retrieved stored peanuts on the first occasion they were allowed to retrieve food.
- All the crickets were retrieved before any of the peanuts were.
- The peanuts were stored further away than the crickets.
- When a jay attempted to retrieve a cricket or a peanut, the jay was prevented from eating it.
- Throughout the experiment the jays were fed at levels typical of a time of scarcity
这道题我选C,为什么答案有的选A有的选E呢? 我想先谈谈我的看法,首先C选项排除了,scrub 并不是因为criket放得比peanut远,所以就近才选择peanut,这个可能性的存在 然而E选项说明时间有限,反而increase scrub 并不是因为criket放得比peanut远,所以就近才选择peanut的这种可能性了,然而A的some of jays更加不符合逻辑题的要求,简直不知所云 |