Cognition. Quiz 2. Chapter 5.

This multiple choice question is an example of a _______ test

recognition

The "magic number" according to Miller is:

7 plus or minus 2

Sperling's delayed partial report procedure provided evidence that:

Information in the sensory memory fades within 1 or 2 seconds

If basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal wanted to remember his 16-digit credit card number, whcih of the following memory techniques would you recommend?

He should think of the numbers as a sequence of basketball statistics

In the partial report experiment, as the arrow indicating what row to report is delayed, what happens to the percentage of correct letters reported?

It goes down

In the Brown-Peterson experiment, what is the purpose of the distractor task?

To prevent active rehearsal

Compared to the whole-report technique, the partial-report procedures involves

a smaller response set

Chase and Simon's research compared memory of chess masters and beginners for the position of game pieces on sample chess boards. They found that the chess master remembered positions better when the arrangement of the pieces was consistent with a real game but not when the pieces were randomly placed. This significance of this finding was that

chunking requires knowledge of familiar patterns or concepts, which allows people to arrange information in a meaningful way

Information remains in sensory memory for:

seconds or a fraction of a second

The three structural components of the modal model of memory are

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