squarecap exam 2
People see a fan producing one continuous circular motion because of ____
the icon
Which of the following is NOT a component of Baddeley's working memory model?
the icon
The capacity of short-term memory was thought by George Miller to be ____
7 (plus or minus 2) meaningful chunks of information
According to Teasdale, you should engage in which of the following activities to stop being bothered by disturbing intrusive thoughts?
A video game that is so challenging that you become absorbed into the game
Which of the following is the best explanation of the episodic buffer?
It allows you to integrate information from different modalities
Is an icon a physical stimulus that you literally see?
No, the icon is your auditory memory for important symbols
Your book and the lecture notes discussed a study in which participants would have to suppress a prepotent response in the anti-saccade condition. Which of the following is true?
People with more working memory resources performed better in the anti-saccade condition than people with less working memory resources
Sherry was told that a group of people will be joining her for dinner at a restaurant. Upon finding out the list of dinner guests, someone immediately asks Sherry, "Is Connie coming?" What type of search would Sherry use to answer the question?
Serial Exhaustive
Why did Sperling use a partial report to assess the capacity of sensory memory?
The icon faded in the amount of time that it took participants to output (say items in display) the full report
In the Brown and Peterson task, why were participants told to count backwards by three?
To prevent rehearsal
What is the biggest difference between working and short-term memory?
Working memory refers to the active manipulation of information while short term memory refers to a passive storage system
The intentional operation system can become compromised if
a person is exhausted
The fact that the size of the memory set does affect search time in short-term memory suggests that search is ____
a serial process
Which of the following does not support the notion that the phonological loop is part of working memory
anti-saccade task
People with greater working memory____
are better at inhibiting irrelevant information than people with less working memory
Which of the following is associated with the phonological loop?
articulatory suppression effect
The results of the Brown-Peterson short-term memory task can be explained by ____
both decay and interference
Sternberg's classic work on searching for information from short-term memory indicated that the search process is ____
both serial and exhaustive
In Baddeley's conception of working memory, the ____ directs attention and mental resources where they are needed
central executive
Which of the following is evidence of executive dysfunction
excessive mind wandering
People who engage in excessive daydreaming are probably having problems with which of the following components of executive functioning?
inhibition
Which of the following process works unconsciously "behind the scenes."
ironic monitoring system
Information such as the name of the person who sat in front of you in the fifth grade is stored in ____ memory
long-term
One of the reasons that the partial report was a good estimate of sensory memory is that
participants did not know what row would be cued until after the stimuli were removed from screen
According to Teasdale, which of the following would help you escape "intrusive thoughts?"
playing a video game that involves strategy and uses the central executive
In Waugh and Norman's probe digit task, ____
presentation rate had no effect on performance
Words from the beginning of a list are more likely to be recalled than words from the middle of the list. This phenomenon is known as the ____ effect
primacy
Which list should be more difficult to keep active in working memory?
sat, mat, fat, cat, lack
Which example is the best illustration of the articulatory suppression effect?
saying wah wah when your parent lectures you for the fifth time about the same issue
Which of the following best describes the amount of information that can be held in short term memory?
seven units
Abigail was introduced to another student and she remembered the student's name for a few seconds after meeting her, but now the student's name is forgotten. Most likely, the student's name was in Abigail's _____
short term memory
Rote rehearsal is a good method for maintaining information in
short term memory
Information is held in ____ memory for 20-30 seconds
short-term
Information is held in ____ for 20-30 seconds
short-term memory
If you are involved in a task that requires adding two numbers in some instances and subtracting them in others, you are engaged in which of the following executive processes?
task switching
Psychologists believe that the capacity of long-term memory is _____
unlimited
When you look at a room and see what it could be rather than what it currently is, you are using which of the following cognitive resources?
visual spatial sketchpad
You are most likely to withhold a prepotent response if
you have high working memory capacity