Short Term Memory
Combining smaller units together so that they can be processed as single concepts is called ________
What is chunking?
When you recall correctly the information from the beginning of a list because it has been stored in long term memory
What is the primacy effect?
The case of H.M. illustrates that this part of the brain is crucial for the formation of long term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
When we shift our attention without moving our eyes this is called ____________
What is covert attention?
A person with a reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with _____ memory.
What is short term memory?
Information remains in sensory memory for _____
What is a fraction of a second to couple seconds
What is procedural memory?
The inability to form new declarative long term memories is called _______
What is anterograde amnesia?
This technique involves presenting words to both ears simultaneously, and attending to the words in only one ear
What is dichotic listening?
The Stroop effect demonstrates people's inability to ignore the _______ of words.
What is the meaning?
Imagine walking from our classroom down to the bathroom and back. Your ability to form this mental image in your mind depends on which component in Baddeley's model of working memory?
What is the visuospatial sketch pad?
_____ memories are to experiences as _____ memories are to facts
What are episodic memories and semantic memories?
This patient had a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to treat epilepsy and subsequently had both retrograde and anterograde amnesia
Who is H.M.?
Eye trackers are used to measure ________ attention
What is overt?
In our visual search lab, it was easy to find the Q in the _______ background because we could use the _______ stage of processing.
What is angular (background) and preattentive (stage)?
The capacity of short term memory is...
What is 7 plus or minus 2 items - limited capacity shared by processing and storage
These memories are not available to conscious awareness
What are non-declarative or implicit memories?
What is 50 First Dates?
According to Treisman's feature integration theory, the first stage of perception is the ______ stage and the second stage is the _______ stage
What is preattentive and focused attention?
Sarah made a list in her head of several items she needed to get at the grocery store. On the way, she repeated the list over and over to herself so she wouldn't forget. How is Sarah trying to remember the list?
What is rehearsal in short-term memory
These are the 3 components of the modal memory system
What are sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory
The following statement represents which kind of memory: "Jimmy Carter was the 39th president."
What is semantic memory?
Amnesia that happens because well-learned procedural memories don't require attention (and people often have no memory for how they did it)
What is expert-induced amnesia?
When we fail to see things that are visible right in front of us this is called __________
What is inattentional blindness?
If you walk into your doctor's office and there is a magician and a mime in the waiting room, this would violate your _______
What is scene schema?