Quiz 10 - 2/26/20

Lamar has just gotten a new job and is attending a company party where he will meet his colleagues for the first time. His boss escorts him around to small groups to introduce him. At the first group, Lamar meets four people and is told only their first names. The same thing happens with a second group and a third group. At the fourth group, Lamar is told their names and that one of the women in the group is the company accountant. A little while later, Lamar realizes that he only remembers the names of the people in the first group, though he also remembers the profession of the last woman he met (the accountant). Lamar's experience demonstrates

a build-up and release of proactive interference

Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for the ____ of a list.

both the first and last words

The predominant type of coding in short-term memory is

phonological

The primacy effect is attributed to

recall of information stored in LTM.

This multiple choice question is an example of a ____ test.

recognition

the predominant type of coding in long-term memory is

semantic

The recency effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with ____ memory.

short-term