Module 23

Participants in a study conducted by Haber were shown more than 2500 slides of faces and places for only 10 seconds each. Later, they were shown 280 of these slides, paired with other unseen slides, and they were able to recognize _______ percent of the slides they had seen before.

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The three-stage processing model of memory was proposed by:

Atkinson and Shiffrin.

___________ is a newer understanding of short-term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, as well as information retrieved from long-term memory.

Working memory

According to psychologists, memory refers to all of the following measures of retention EXCEPT:

categorizing information.

Encoding is to _____________ as storage is to _____________.

data input into a computer; data saved on the hard drive

Professor Wallace studies memory in people who have had strokes. Professor Hansen studies people who claim to have clear memories of events that happened over three decades ago. Such research on the extremes of memory:

helps us to understand how memory works.

This is a relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of your memory system.

long-term memory

Unlike short-term memory, long-term memory is:

permanent

Dr. Napleton prefers to give his students all essay and fill-in-the-blank questions to fully test their:

recall

Which of the following measures of retention is the LEAST sensitive in triggering retrieval?

recall

A multiple-choice test is a good example of:

recognition

Imagine you have to pick the correct answer from a displayed list of options. This type of memory measure is known as:

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In Atkinson and Shiffrin's three-stage processing model we record information in which order?

sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

The three steps in memory information processing are:

encoding, storage, retrieval.

The processing of information into the memory system is called:

encoding.

Jamaal has to make an important phone call. Unfortunately, his cell phone is not charged and he has to use his landline, which does not store phone numbers. To make the call, he has to get the number from his cell phone and remember it long enough to dial it on his landline. For this task, which memory is most important?

working memory