Cog Psych 2/3
The inability to assimilate or retain new knowledge is known as...
anterograde amnesia
Neuropsychological evidence indicates that STM and LTM probably...
are caused by different mechanisms that act independently
Carrie answers her phone with "Hello?" A response, "Hi, Carrie!" comes from the other end of the line. Carrie responds back with "Hi, Dad!" Carrie processed "Hi, Carrie" using a(n)...
auditory code in LTM
Physiological studies indicate that damage to the area of the brain known as the _____ can disrupt behaviors that depend on working memory.
prefrontal cortex
Research on monkeys has shown that the part of the brain most closely associated with working memory is the...
prefrontal cortex
Joey is participating in an experiment on memory. He is asked to read a sentence and then hold the last word in his memory while he reads the next sentence. The experimenter measures the maximum number of sentences Joey can read while doing this memory task. Joey is doing the task.
reading span
The primacy effect is attributed to...
recall of information stored in LTM
Loss of memory for things that have happened in the past is known as...
retrograde amnesia
The predominant type of coding in LTM is...
semantic
Which of the following is NOT an example of an implicit memory?
semantic memory
One function of the ______ is controlling the suppression of irrelevant information.
the central executive
The episodic buffer directly connects to which two components in Baddley's model of memory?
the central executive and LTM
The dramatic case of the patient H.M. clearly illustrates that ____ is crucial for the formation of LTMs.
the hippocampus
Which of the following is an example of a semantic memory?
I remember that the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes.
Which of the following would most likely be a detailed long-term memory?
I was talking to that girl just before class
When investigating the serial position curve, presenting the word list at a slower pace...
increases the primacy effect
You've now learned about the serial position curve. The relevant research in your text describes this curve using a free recall task (participants are free to recall words in any order they choose). Imagine that you conducted a "remembering a list" experiment using a serial recall task (participants must recall words in the same order they were presented). What would you predict for the results with the serial recall task?
A diminished recency effect, relative to free recall
A study participant is given a list of words to remember. One week later, he recalls the list. Let's say that one of the list words was PEAR. Which of the following, none of which actually appeared on the list, would be most likely incorrectly recalled if the participant doesn't remember PEAR?
APPLE
The primacy effect (from the serial position curve experiment) is associated with...
LTM
Which of the following is NOT a conclusion from the case of H.M., who had an operation to help alleviate his epileptic seizures?
LTMs are stored in the hippocampus
Models designed to explain mental functioning are constantly refined and modified to explain new results. Which of the following exemplifies this concept based on the results presented in your text?
Replacing the STM component of the modal model with working memory
Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.'s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that...
STM can operate normally while LTM is impaired
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
Regarding free recall of a list of items, which of the following will most likely cause the recency effect to disappear?
counting backward for 30 seconds before recall
We are conscious of ____ memories.
declarative
Explicit memory is to _____ as implicit memory is to _____.
declarative; nondeclarative
Funahashi and coworkers recorded neurons in the PF cortex of monkeys during a delayed response task. These neurons showed the most intense firing during...
delay
Two types of declarative memory are ____ and _____ memory.
episodic; semantic
An example of a dissociation is evidenced by a brain-injured patient who...
exhibits a recency effect but no primacy effect
Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for the ____ of a list.
first five and the last five words
The recency effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. One way to get rid of the recency effect is to...
have participants count backwards for 30 seconds after hearing the last word of the list.
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
One of the defining properties of the experience of episodic memory is that...
it involves mental time travel
It is easier to perform two tasks at the same time if...
one is handled by the sketch pad and one is handled by the phonological loop
Shanta has frontal lobe damage. She is doing a problem solving task in which she has to choose the red object out of many choices. She can easily complete this repeatedly, but when the experimenter asks her to choose the blue object on a new trial of the task, she continues to choose the red one, even when the experimenter gives her feedback that she is incorrect. Shanta is displaying...
perseveration
