Cog Psych Quiz 4

A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look away, and then write down the words you remember" is using the

articulatory suppression technique

In order to avoid forgetting information, what is required to move information from sensory to short-term memory?

attention

Where problems from working memory seem to arise with most traumatic brain injuries, physiological studies indicate that damage specifically to the area of the brain known as the _____ can disrupt behaviors that depend on working memory.

prefrontal cortex

All of the following were found to be failures of short-term memory and thus, reasons for the creation of the working memory model:

retroactive and proactive interference

Information remains in sensory memory for

seconds or a fraction of a second.

The three structural components of the modal model of memory are

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

A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look away, and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying

the phonological loop.

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

the visuospatial sketch pad.

Working memory differs from short-term memory in that

working memory is concerned with the manipulation of information.

The "magic number," according to Miller, is

7 plus or minus 2.

Clive Wearing, the ex-choral director, experienced what memory problem?

An inability to form new long-term memories

If basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal wanted to remember his 16-digit credit card number, which of the following memory techniques would you recommend?

He should think of the numbers as chunks of basketball statistics.

Although working memory seems to be a cognitive process that is distributed across multiple brain areas, what area in the brain seems to play a particularly important role?

The prefrontal cortex

The episodic buffer, in Baddley's model of memory, serves as?

To bring information from and store information in reference memory

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

The word-length effect shows that it is more difficult to remember

a list of long words than a list of short words.

Sperling's delayed partial report procedure provided evidence that

information in sensory memory fades within 1 or 2 seconds.

Brief sensory memory for sound is known as

echoic memory.

The episodic buffer allows information to move from reference or long-term memory into working memory as well as

move information from working memory into long-term or working memory

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.