Cognitive Psychology Exam 2 (Set: 1 of 5)
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 stimulus characteristics most challenges the processing capacity of short-term memory?
complexity
According to your text, imagery enhances memory because
imagery can be used to create connections between items to be remembered.
One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that
people are not conscious they are using it.
Robin lost the softball game for her team when she ran toward home and was thrown out at the plate. The coach asked her, "Why did you run? You knew it was a risky move." Robin replied, "But I heard you yell, 'Go! Go!'" The coach replied, "I was saying, 'No! No!'" Robin's ill-fated run was the result of a ________ error.
phonological
One function of ___________ is to pull information out of long-term memory.
the central executive
Funahashi and coworkers recorded neurons in the pre-frontal cortex of monkeys during a delayed response task. These neurons showed the most intense firing during
the delay period.
Which of the following represents the correct progression of information as it moves through the primary memory stores?
Sensory, short-term, long-term
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
Sperling's delayed partial report procedure provided evidence that
information in sensory memory fades within one or two seconds
