Cognitive Psychology Exam 2 (Set: 1 of 5)

A person who is activating their visuospatial sketch pad is likely to say which of the following?

"I can see it in my mind's eye."

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

complexity

According to your text, imagery enhances memory because

imagery can be used to create connections between items to be remembered.

One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that

people are not conscious they are using it.

Robin lost the softball game for her team when she ran toward home and was thrown out at the plate. The coach asked her, "Why did you run? You knew it was a risky move." Robin replied, "But I heard you yell, 'Go! Go!'" The coach replied, "I was saying, 'No! No!'" Robin's ill-fated run was the result of a ________ error.

phonological

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

the central executive

Funahashi and coworkers recorded neurons in the pre-frontal cortex of monkeys during a delayed response task. These neurons showed the most intense firing during

the delay period.

Which of the following represents the correct progression of information as it moves through the primary memory stores?

Sensory, short-term, long-term

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 word they just learned

Sperling's delayed partial report procedure provided evidence that

information in sensory memory fades within one or two seconds