Cog Psych Test #2 (Quizzes)

Have you ever tried to think of the words and hum the melody of one song while the radio is playing a different song? People have often noted that this is very difficult to do. This difficulty can be understood as

articulatory suppression

Explicit memory is to______ as implicit memory is to_____.

aware; unaware

According to your text, which of the following movies is LEAST accurate in its portrayal of a memory problem? - The Bourne Identity - Memento - 50 First Dates - The Long Kiss Goodnight

50 First Dates

A patient suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome, such as "Jimmy G" who is described in your text, would be able to perform which of the following activities without difficulty?

Identifying a photograph of his childhood home

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.

According to your text, when students are asked the top functions for which they use their memories, all but which of the following are commonly identified?

labeling familiar objects

The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with ____memory.

long-term

STM's capacity is best estimated as seven (plus or minus two)

meaningful units

Information remains in sensory memory for

seconds or a fraction of a second.

The predominant type of coding in LTM is

semantic

One function of ____ is to pull information out of long-term memory.

sensory memory

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

short-term

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 sketchpad

The defining characteristic of implicit memory is that

we are not conscious we are using it

Which of the following is NOT an example of an implicit memory? - Classical conditioning - Repetition priming - Procedural memory - Semantic memory

Semantic memory

Brief sensory memory for sound is known as

echoic memory

"I remember being really excited last year, when my college team won the national championship in basketball." This statement is an example of _____ memory.

episodic

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

recognition

One function of ____ is to pull information out of long-term memory

the central executive

When a sparkler is twirled rapidly, people perceive a circle of light. This occurs because

the length of iconic memory (the persistence of vision) is about one-third of a second.