Question 1

What do Sternberg's results indicate about retrieval from short-term memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  retrieval involves a serial self-terminating search
B)  retrieval involves a serial exhaustive search
C)  retrieval involves a parallel self-terminating search
D)  retrieval involves a parallel exhaustive search

Question 2

A fundamental objection to the distinction between short-term memory and long-term memory is based on

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A)  failure to replicate the Brown-Peterson data
B)  the lack of attention to processing assumptions in the modal model
C)  the lack of any convincing evidence that the principles of memory differ as a function of the retention interval
D)  the failure to locate precise physiological mechanisms corresponding to the two memory systems

Question 3

This component of Baddeley's multicomponent model of working memory provides transient storage of verbal representations and maintains active memory via rehearsal

Accepted Answer

A)  visual-spatial sketch pad
B)  episodic buffer
C)  phonological loop
D)  central executive C

Question 4

Successfully recall a word from a particular serial position could reflect retrieval from either the short or long-term memory store.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

In contrast to Freud, Loftus and others have proposed that early experiences from infancy cannot be remembered because

Accepted Answer

A)  the memories do not exist because they were not encoded or were lost through decay
B)  the memories are repressed
C)  the memories exist only as emotional experiences that cannot be verbally expressed
D)  the memories are too emotionally upsetting to recall

Question 6

The loss of a recency effect that is observed while performing distracting tasks, such as counting backwards, in a memory experiment demonstrates

Accepted Answer

A)  that short-term memory is different from iconic memory
B)  that long-term memory is different from permastore
C)  that short-term memory is different from long-term memory
D)  that long-term memory is different from PAS

Question 7

Describe three of the following types of memory: echoic sensory memory, iconic sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory.Remember to include characteristics such as capacity and duration.

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1. Echoic Sensory Memory:
- Echoic senso...

Question 8

Which model of working memory predicts that both irrelevant speech and bursts of white noise would disrupt recall of letters from the verbal short-term memory store?

Accepted Answer

A)  Baddeley's multicomponent model
B)  Jones' episodic buffer model
C)  Wicken's proactive interference model
D)  Cowan's embedded process model

Question 9

Which memory system shows decay in 2 or 3 seconds?

Accepted Answer

A)  short-term
B)  episodic
C)  iconic
D)  echoic

Question 10

One's general knowledge of facts and concepts is often referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  short-term memory
B)  episodic memory
C)  procedural memory
D)  semantic memory

Question 11

Storage and retrieval of personally dated, autobiographical experiences is called

Accepted Answer

A)  long-term memory
B)  semantic memory
C)  schematic memory
D)  episodic memory

Question 12

Baddeley's model of working memory includes

Accepted Answer

A)  a phonological loop
B)  a visual-spatial scratch pad
C)  an executive control system
D)  all of the above D

Question 13

A record of things just attended to is called

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory memory
B)  short-term memory
C)  long-term memory
D)  implicit memory

Question 14

People who suffer from amnesia exhibit the effects of priming like normal individuals.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 15

Which of the following is evidence that there is a distinction between short-term memory and long-term memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  partial report is greater than whole report
B)  physical cues work best for the primary effect
C)  the recency effect disappears when a subject must count backwards before recall
D)  the primacy effect disappears when a subject must count backwards before recall

Question 16

Explain the difference between anterograde and retrograde amnesia.

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Question 17

This component of Baddeley's multicomponent model of working memory provides supervisory control, focuses and switches attention, and retrieves representations from long-term memory

Accepted Answer

A)  visual-spatial sketch pad
B)  episodic buffer
C)  phonological loop
D)  central executive

Question 18

Researchers presented Elizabeth's right eye with a 10,000-dot pattern for 1 minute.A few seconds later, they presented a slightly different 10,000-dot pattern to her left eye, and asked her to superimpose the two patterns to perceive a three-dimensional object.Elizabeth's ability to do this successfully indicated

Accepted Answer

A)  her iconic memory was abnormally persistent
B)  her long-term memory was abnormally three-dimensional
C)  her eidetic imagery was typical of most people
D)  echoic memory was abnormally transient

Question 19

Iconic and echoic are both types of ______ memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  long-term
B)  epidodic
C)  sensory
D)  short-term

Question 20

Current evidence on childhood memory shows that

Accepted Answer

A)   all early experience is repressed
B)   2-year-olds can recall events from 6 months in the past
C)   most all of the first year of life is remembered
D)   birth experiences are remembered accurately under hypnosis

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