COGNITION FINAL MULTIPLE CHOICE: Exam 2

According to "levels of processing theory", which of the following tasks will produce the best long-term memory for a set of words?

Making a connection between each word and something you've previously learned

______________ is the process of of acquiring information and transferring it into long-term memory, while ___________ is the process of remembering information that has been stored into long-term memory

Encoding; retrieval

Which of the following represents the most effective chunking of the digit sequence 14929111776

1492 911 1776

Severe damage to the hippocampus impairs ones...

Ability to form new long term memory AND ability to retrieve episodic memories

One function of _________ is controlling the suppression of irrelevant information

the central executive

K.C., who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a strike and a spare in bowling, but he is unaware of experiencing things like hearing about the circumstances of his brother's death, which occurred two years before the accident. His memory behavior suggests...

Intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory

Which of the following is a good explanation for the findings of Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014)

Laptop note takers tended to transcribe letters verbatim leading to more shallow processing of the information compared to longhand note takers

Muller and Oppenheimer (2014) experiment titled "The Pen is mightier than the keyboard" demonstrated that...

Taking notes longhand lead to better performance on conceptual short answer questions

In which of the following examples of two different brain-injured patients (Tom and Tim) is a double dissociation demonstrated?

Tom has good semantic memory and poor episodic memory, while Tim has good episodic memory but poor semantic memory

Bransford and Johnson's study had participants hear a passage which turned out to be about a man on the street serenading his girlfriend in a tall building. The wording of the passage made it difficult to understand, but looking at a picture made it easier to understand. The results of this study illustrated the importance of _________ in forming reliable long-term memories.

an organizational context during learning

When investigating the serial position curve, delaying the memory test for 30 seconds...

decreases the recency effect

Despite Clive Wearing extensive memory deficits, he was still able to play the piano, demonstrating that his condition did not affect his ___________

implicit memory

The recency effect occurs because information presented last is more likely to be...

in short-term memory

Marlene, who was injured in a motorcycle accident, remembers facts like the difference between a touchdown and a field goal, but she is unaware of experiencing things like dancing at her sister's wedding, which occurred two years before the accident. Her memory behavior suggests...

intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory

Roger has a reduced digit span indicating that he most likely has a problem with _____________

poor short-term memory

Bianca has been parking in the second row of the parking lot A outside Wynn academic building for about 2 weeks. She arrives to campus late and finds the entire lot full and has to park in lot D near the student union. She attends class in Wynn and afterwards heads to parking lot A to get in her car and drive home. After wandering the lot for seven minutes, she realizes that she actually parked in lot D and not lot A. Bianca suffered from a moment of...

proactive interference

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 while he remembers the names of the people in the fourth group, he can no longer recall the names of anyone he met earlier in the party. Lamar's experience demonstrates...

retroactive interference

Observations that people may actually process and manipulate information rather than simply store it for brief periods of time challenged the conceptualization of...

short-term memory

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?

the visuospatial sketch pad

The primacy effect occurs because information presented first is more likely to be...

transferred to long term memory

Working memory differs from short-term memory in that:

working memory is concerned with the manipulation of information