Chapter 5: Short Term & Working Memory

The "magic number," according to Miller, is ________.

7 plus or minus 2

Each year, working American's are required by law to file their income taxes by the April 15 deadline. This describes a _______ schedule of reinforcement.

Fixed Interval

The primary effect of chunking is to ___________.

Increase the efficiency of short-term memory.

It is easier to perform two tasks at the same time if _____.

One is handled by the sketch pad and one is handled by the phonological loop.

__________ procedures causes behaviors to decrease in probability or become less likely.

Punishment

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.

Information remains in sensory memory for _______.

seconds or a fraction of a second.

Working memory differs from short-term memory in that ____________.

working memory is concerned with both holding and processing information.

Remembering that a tomato is actually a fruit rather than vegetable is an example of __________ memory.

Semantic

Speech Segmentation is defined as ________.

organizing the sounds of speech into individual words