HW4

_____ memories are to experiences as _____ memories are to facts.

Suppose you have been studying for your Japanese vocabulary test for several hours and are making many
mistakes. You switch to studying for your biology mid-term and do much better. You are experiencing;

These multiple choice questions are examples of a _____ test.

Your text discusses how episodic and semantic memories are interconnected. This revealed that when we
experience events;

Our brief sensory memory for sound is called _____ memory.

Lamar is attending a company function at his new workplace. His supervisor introduces him to his new coworkers
in small groups over the course of the event, introducing each of the coworkers by first name. At the end of the
event, Lamar realizes he can only remember the names of the people in the last group of people he met. This is an
example of;

Wickens’ “fruit, meat, and professions” experiment failed to show a release from proactive interference in the
“fruit” group because;

Work with brain injured patients such as Clive and Henry reveals that _____ memory does not depend on
conscious awareness.

Which of the following is NOT an example of implicit memory?

Your text describes an Italian woman who after an attack of encephalitis, had difficulty remembering people or
facts she knew before. She could, however, remember her life events and daily happenings. Her memory deficit
reflects;

The primacy effect is attributed to;

An experimental task with the instructions “Read the following word list while repeating “the” out-loud, look way,
and then write down the words from the list” would most likely be studying;

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

Info in sensory memory remains there before decaying for;

The statement “The Beatles broke up in the early 1970’s” is an example of what kind of memory?

The predominant type of coding in LTM is;

In Sperling’s study of iconic memory, compared to the whole report task, the partial report task involves;

The propaganda effect demonstrates that we evaluate familiar statements as being true;

Explicit memory is to _____, as implicit memory is to _____.

Given what you have learned about how the phonological loop works, which of the following lists would be the
MOST difficult for people to retain for 15 seconds?

When studying the serial position curve, delaying the memory test for 30 seconds;

A person with a brain injury resulting in impaired episodic memory would most likely have the greatest difficulty;

Imagine that you’re walking to class, starting at the Psychology department, and form a mental picture of the route
you take to the lecture hall from the department office. Your ability to perform this mental feat relies upon;

Working memory (WM) differs from short-term memory in that;

The dramatic case of Clive Wearing clearly illustrates that _____ is crucial for formation of explicit memories, and
that the _____ is important for the formation of implicit memories.

Your text discusses the case of Henry Molaison, who underwent brain surgery as a teenager to relieve severe
epilepsy. Henry’s case has been extremely important for psychology by demonstrating that;

Chandra has frontal lobe trauma. She is being tested on a problem solving task to assess the nature of her deficits.
She is choosing a red object out of others of different color. However, when the doctor asks her to now pick out the
blue object, she continues to pick our the red object, even after the doctor tells her she’s made an incorrect choice.
Chandra is displaying evidence of;

Imagine you’re driving to a friend’s new apartment. As you drive you rehearse the address until you arrive. Once
there, you start thinking about a nice house-warming gift for your friend. To remember her new address you used
a(n) _____ process in STM.

Which of the following is NOT a conclusion based on the cases of Clive Wearing and Henry Molaison?

Peterson & Peterson found their participants could remember the three letter strings (like QEX and RDZ) with 80%
accuracy after 3 seconds, but only about 12% accuracy after 18 seconds. They concluded this performance
decrease was due to _____, but Keppel & Underwood later showed it was due to _____.

Carrie answers the phone with “Hello?” The response “Hi, Carrie!” comes from the other end of the line. Carrie
responds with “Hi, Dad!” Carrie processed the response “Hi, Carrie” using an;

Murdoch’s “remembering a list” experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for
_____ of a list.

Research seems to indicate that the duration of STM, when rehearsal is prevented, is;

According to Endel Tulving, the defining property of episodic memory is that it;

According to Baddeley & Hitch’s model of working memory, which of the following tasks would LEAST affect a
person’s driving performance on an unfamiliar winding road?

Lucy is helping Kendra get used to her new racing bicycle. She explains that the shifters and brake levers are
integrated, and that different actions with the levers either shift the gears, or activate the brakes. These skills that
Lucy has acquired from her own experience with cycling are an example of _____ memory

It’s easier to do two mental tasks at the same time if;

According to subsequent research on George Miller’s proposal about the capacity of STM is 7 (plus or minus 2);

A memory research participant is given a list of words to memorize. One week later she is tested on the list. If one
of the words was “Pear”, which of the following words, which actually didn’t occur on the memorized list, would
most likely be incorrectly recalled?

Sperling’s experiment using the delayed partial report task demonstrate that;

In an experiment where participants are briefly flashed (for approximately 50 ms) a sequence of letters and are then
told to write them down in the same sequence they were presented, it is most likely that the letter “P” will be
misidentified as;

In the classic Bill Murray move “Groundhog Day”, his character Phil Connors grows increasingly frustrated as he
experiences the same day over and over again. With each “new” day, he is able to respond to people’s actions more
and more quickly because of;

The word-length effect means it is more difficult to remember;

Failures of the modal model to explain some kinds of memory behaviors, such as rehearsal, challenged the model’s
conceptualization of;

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

Which of the following is the most accurate with regard to autobiographical memory?

The primary function of “chunking” is to;

When the beam from a flashlight is moved quickly around on a wall in a dark room, it can appear as if there’s a
trail of light on the wall, even though the beam is at a given spot for only a fraction of a second. This experience
occurs because of

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 textbook?

Jill’s friends tell her they think she has a very good memory, so one day she decides to test herself on it. At work
each day her supervisor gives her a to-do list, but instead of checking them off the list, she decides to memorize the
list. On Monday she is able to memorize 90% of the tasks. On Tuesday her recall drops to 80%. By Friday it has
dropped to 30%. This drop in her memory performance is most likely due to;