exam 2 quiz questions

The repeated reproduction technique used in memory studies involves

the same participants remembering info in longer and longer intervals after learning the info

Autobiographical memory research shows that a person's brain is more extensively activated when viewing photos

they took themselves

Free recall of the stimulus list "apple, desk, shoe, sofa, plum, chair, cherry, coat, lamp, pants" will most likely yield which of these response patterns?

"apple, cherry, plum, shoe, coat, lamp, chair, pants"

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

1492 911 1776

Jacoby's experiment, in which participants made judgments about whether they had previously seen the names of famous and non-famous people, found that inaccurate memories based on source misattributions occurred after a delay of *

24 hours

what is an example of state dependent learning

Although Emily doesn't very often think about her first love, Steve, she can't help getting caught up in happy memories when "their song" (the first song they danced to) plays on the radio.

The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented *

after the event

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

ming is taking a memory test. she is more likely to recall the name of a popular song if she had

attended the singer's concert last year with her boyfriend

According to levels of processing theory, deep processing results in better memory. However, studies have shown that shallow processing can result in better memory when the individual encodes and is tested

auditorially

explicit memory is to ____ and implicit memory is to___

aware, unaware

3. Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements? *

circumstances surrounding which a person heard about an emotional event that remains especially vivid but not necessarily accurate over time

which task would be used to test for implicit memory

completing a word for which the first and last letter have been supplied

According to the____ approach to memory, what people report as memories is based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge, experiences, and expectations.

constructive

The "telephone game" is often played by children. One child creates a story and whispers it to a second child, who does the same to a third child, and so on. When the last child recites the story to the group, his or her reproduction of the story is generally shorter than the original and contains many omissions and inaccuracies. This game shows how memory is a________ process. *

constructive

Peterson and Peterson studied how well participants can remember groups of three letters (like BRT, QSD) after various delays. They found that participants remembered an average of 80 percent of the groups after 3 seconds but only 10 percent after 18 seconds. They hypothesized that this decrease in performance was due to _________, but later research by Keppel and Underwood showed that it was actually due to__________.

decay, interference

according to the levels of processing theory, what task will produce the best LTM for a set of words

making a connection between each word and something you previously learned

compared to the whole report technique, the partial report involves

smaller response set

Imagine yourself walking from your car, bus stop, or dorm to your first class. Your ability to form such a picture in your mind depends on which of the following components of working memory?

visuospatial sketchpad

6. Working memory differs from short-term memory in that *

working memory is concerned with both processing and holding info

1. Imagine you are driving to a friend's new house. In your mind, you say the address repeatedly until you arrive. Once you arrive, you stop thinking about the address and start to think about buying a housewarming gift for your friend. To remember the address, you used a(n) _______ process in STM.

control

The observation that older adults often become nostalgic for the "good old days" reflects the self-image hypothesis, which states that *

memory of life events is enhanced during the time we assume our life identities

5. Suppose you (a student) are asked by a teacher to learn a poem you will recite in front of your class. Soon after, both you and a classmate, J.P., are asked by another teacher to learn the lyrics to an unfamiliar song. When you and J.P. are later asked to remember the song lyrics, you have a much more difficult time recalling them than J.P. does. This impairment of your performance is most likely attributable to

proactive interference

what involves procedural memory

reading a sentence in a book

the primacy effect is attributed to

recall of info stored in LTM

elaborative rehearsal of a word will leaf likely be accomplished by

repeating it over and over

Your friend has been sick for several days, so you go over to her home to make her some chicken soup. Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen *

schema

Research on eyewitness testimony has shown that the more confident the person giving the testimony is of their memories, *

the more convincing the testimony is to the jury

The word-length effect reveals that

the phonological loop of the wm model has a limited capacity