LTM 1 Quiz

What is the typical explanation of the serial position curve?

The primacy effect is due to LTM and the recency effect is due to STM

Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is

encoding

Which statement below is most closely associated with levels of processing theory?

Deep processing involves paying closer attention to a stimulus than shallow processing and results in better processing.

In Slameka and Graf's (1978) study, some participants read word pairs, while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The latter group performed better on a later memory task, illustrating the

generation effect

The primacy effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. Of the following choices, the most effective way to increase the primacy effect is to

present the list more slowly

Based on the kinds of errors people tend to make in short-term vs long-term memory tasks, the Modal Model assumed that

Short-term memory uses a phonological code

Dr. Leung is leading a research team to explore the levels-of-processing effect. Effects related to which of the following will likely be a key focus of her team's research protocol?

elaborating

Research shows that ___________ does not improve reading comprehension because it does not encourage elaborative processing of the material

highlighting

In one classic memory expeirment participants heard a passage that 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 long-term memory.

organization

This multiple-choice question is an example of a ___________ test

recognition

__________ cues help us remember information that has been stored in memory

retrieval

The predominant type of coding in long-term memory is

semantic

According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are

short and across several days

Wickens et al.'s "fruit, meat, and professions" experiment failed to show a release from proactive interference in the "fruit" group because

the stimulus category remained the same

Transfer-appropriate processing is likely to occur if

the type of encoding task matches the type of retrieval task