Chapter 5 Activity quiz: Pre-test

You are a graduate student in clinical psychology, and you want to design a study that interviews subjects about sensory memories that last 30 minutes or longer. What is the flaw in this proposed study?

All sensory memories last longer than 30 minutes.

What are the types of memory as described in the modal model?

Sensory, short-term, and long-term

T/F: If you ask research subjects to form a visual image of random words in a list, they will have more trouble with this task if you also show them images that are unrelated to the words

True

T/F: Multi-syllable words are harder to keep in short-term memory than single-syllable words are

True

T/F: Researchers are using neuroscience and multitasking experiments to learn more about short-term memory

True

The retrieval process can be _.

intentional or unintentional

Researchers who believe that memory is like a filing cabinet believe in memory as _.

structure

Based on what you have read in this chapter, how can you make sure that the information you study gets stored in your long-term memory?

Connect it to information already stored in your long-term memory

T/F: Most researchers believe that humans can store only a limited number of memories in long-term memory, but those memories are of unlimited duration

False

T/F: Working memory and short-term memory are different names for the same process

False