Cognitive Psychology Chapter 5 Quiz

A property of control processes in the modal model of memory is that they

may differ from one task to another.

It is easier to perform two tasks at the same time if

one is handled by the visuospatial sketch pad and one is handled by the phonological loop.

The primary effect of chunking is to

increase the efficiency of short-term memory.

Sperling's delayed partial report procedure provided evidence that

information in sensory memory fades within one or two seconds.

The three structural components of the modal model of memory are

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

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 represents the most effective chunking of the digit sequence 14929111776?

1492 911 1776

What is the typical duration of short-term memory?

15 to 20 seconds

Which of the following stimuli will last longer in the receiver's sensory memory?

A lion's roar at the zoo

Which of the following is not a stage in the information processing model of memory?

Episodic memory

Physiological studies indicate that damage to the brain's___________can disrupt behaviors that depend on working memory.

Prefrontal cortex

Before going to the grocery store, Jamal quickly made a list in his head of the few items he needed to cook dinner. Driving to the store, he repeated the list over and over to himself so that he wouldn't forget anything. How would Atkinson & Shiffrin describe Jamal's actions in the car?

Rehearsal in short-term memory

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 short-term memory component of the modal model with working memory

The episodic buffer directly connects to which two components in Baddeley's model of memory?

The central executive and long-term memory

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 which of the following components of working memory?

The visuospatial sketch pad

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

Compared to the whole report technique, the partial report procedure involves

a smaller response set.

On what factor do working memory and short-term memory most differ?

activity

Jason quickly scanned the map on his phone to get to his job interview, then took a left and ran down the block so he wouldn't be late. According to Stokes, Jason's ability to recall the directions as he's running is the result of ________.

an activity state followed by a synaptic state

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

articulatory suppression.

The staff working in the air traffic control tower at a busy airport can be considered a suitable metaphor for which of the following?

central executive

Peterson and Peterson studied how well participants can remember groups of three letters (like BRT, QSD) after various delays. They found that participants remembered an average of 80 percent of the groups after 3 seconds but only 10 percent after 18 seconds. They hypothesized that this decrease in performance was due to ___________, but later research showed that it was actually due to ___________.

decay; interference

Brief sensory memory for sound is known as

echoic memory.

When light from a flashlight is moved quickly back and forth on a wall in a darkened room, it can appear to observers that there is a trail of light moving across the wall, even though physically the light is only in one place at any given time. This experience is an effect of memory that occurs because of

persistence of vision.

Funahashi's work on monkeys doing a delayed response task examined the role of neurons in the

prefrontal cortex.

Rehearsal is important for transferring information from

short-term memory to long-term memory.

Digit span is one measure of capacity of

short-term memory.

Which term best reflects the core concept of echoic memory?

time

If working memory were an actual workplace, which of the following best describes the members of Baddeley's model?

workers and manager

Working memory differs from short-term memory in that

working memory is engaged in processing information.

The ability to manipulate information in memory temporarily while remembering something else is called

working memory.

Given what we know about the operation of the phonological loop, which of the following word lists would be most difficult for people to retain for 15 seconds?

MAC, CAN, CAP, MAN, MAP

The research by Ericsson and colleagues (1980) examined the ability of a college student to achieve amazing feats of memory by having him remember strings of random digits that were recited to him. They found that this student used his experience with running times to help him retain these strings of numbers. The significance of this finding was that

chunking requires knowledge of familiar patterns or concepts.

Imagine you are driving to a friend's new house. In your mind, you say the address repeatedly until you arrive. To remember the address, you used a(n)___________process in short-term memory.

control

Information remains in sensory memory for

seconds or a fraction of a second.

Remembering that a tomato is a fruit rather than a vegetable is an example of ___________ memory.

semantic

A person with a reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with ___________ memory.

short-term

Observations that people may actually process and manipulate information rather than simply store it for brief periods of time challenged the conceptualization of

short-term memory.

Suppose you're on the phone with a customer support representative who gives you a ticket number for your records. You're later transferred to a different representative who asks for your ticket number, but you've forgotten it. This probably occurred because the number was only temporarily stored in your

short-term memory.

Research suggests that the capacity of short-term memory is

somewhat small, holding only about seven items at one time.