psy 211 ch. 5

A person who is activating their visuospatial sketch pad is likely to say which of the following?

"I can see it in my mind's eye."

Which of the following represents the most effective chunking of the digit sequence 14929111776?

1492 911 1776

What is the typical duration of short-term memory?

15 to 20 seconds

Imagine you are driving to a friend's new house. In your mind, you say the address repeatedly until you arrive. To remember the address, you used a(n)___________process in short-term memory.

control

Brief sensory memory for sound is known as

echoic memory

The primary effect of chunking is to

increase the efficiency of short-term memory

A property of control processes in the modal model of memory is that they

may differ from one task to another

The three structural components of the modal model of memory are

sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

A person with a reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with ___________ memory.

short-term

Digit span is one measure of capacity of

short-term memory

Rehearsal is important for transferring information from

short-term memory to long-term memory

When a sparkler is twirled rapidly, people perceive a circle of light. This occurs because

the length of iconic memory is about a fraction of a second

Which term best reflects the core concept of echoic memory?

time

If working memory were an actual workplace, which of the following best describes the members of Baddeley's model?

workers and manager

A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look away, and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying

articulatory suppression