Quiz #5 (Chapter 5: Short Term & Working Memory)

Brief sensory memory for sound is known as

Echoic memory

The primary effect of chunking is to:

Increase the efficiency of short-term memory

Which of the following stimulus characteristics most challenges the processing capacity of short-term memory?

Complexitity

The episodic buffer directly connects to which two components in Baddeley's model of memory?

The central executive and long-term memory

When light from a flashlight is moved quickly back and forth on a wall in a darkened room, it can appear to observers that there is a trail of light moving across the wall, even though physically the light is only in one place at any given time. This experience is an effect of memory that occurs because of

persistence of vision

Funahashi's work on monkeys doing a delayed response task examined the role of neurons in the

prefrontal cortex

Information remains in sensory memory for

seconds or a fraction of a second

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

Short-term

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

Chantal has frontal lobe damage. She is doing a problem-solving task in which she has to choose the red object out of many choices. She can easily complete this repeatedly, but when the experimenter asks her to choose the blue object on a new trial of the task, she continues to choose the red one, even when the experimenter gives her feedback that she is incorrect. Chantal is displaying

Perseveraration

Physiological studies indicate that damage to the brain's___________can disrupt behaviors that depend on working memory

Prefrontal Cortex

According to the model of working memory, which of the following mental tasks should LEAST adversely affect people's driving performance while operating a car along an unfamiliar, winding road?

Trying to remember the definition of a work they just learned

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

Workers and managers

Compared to the whole report technique, the partial report procedure involves

a smaller response set

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

one is handled by the visuospatial sketch pad and one is handled by the phonological loop