LTM 1 Quiz
What is the typical explanation of the serial position curve?
The primacy effect is due to LTM and the recency effect is due to STM
Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is
encoding
Which statement below is most closely associated with levels of processing theory?
Deep processing involves paying closer attention to a stimulus than shallow processing and results in better processing.
In Slameka and Graf's (1978) study, some participants read word pairs, while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The latter group performed better on a later memory task, illustrating the
generation effect
The primacy effect occurs when participants are asked to recall a list of words. Of the following choices, the most effective way to increase the primacy effect is to
present the list more slowly
Based on the kinds of errors people tend to make in short-term vs long-term memory tasks, the Modal Model assumed that
Short-term memory uses a phonological code
Dr. Leung is leading a research team to explore the levels-of-processing effect. Effects related to which of the following will likely be a key focus of her team's research protocol?
elaborating
Research shows that ___________ does not improve reading comprehension because it does not encourage elaborative processing of the material
highlighting
In one classic memory expeirment participants heard a passage that turned out to be about a man on the street serenading his girlfriend in a tall building. The wording of the passage made it difficult to understand, but looking at a picture made it easier to understand. The results of this study illustrated the importance of ___________ in long-term memory.
organization
This multiple-choice question is an example of a ___________ test
recognition
__________ cues help us remember information that has been stored in memory
retrieval
The predominant type of coding in long-term memory is
semantic
According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are
short and across several days
Wickens et al.'s "fruit, meat, and professions" experiment failed to show a release from proactive interference in the "fruit" group because
the stimulus category remained the same
Transfer-appropriate processing is likely to occur if
the type of encoding task matches the type of retrieval task