STM/WM
The primary effect of chunking is to
what is increase/stretch the capacity of WM?
This type of memory is like "mental time travel"
What is episodic memory?
Clive Wearing, the ex-choral director, experienced what memory problem?
What are retrograde and anterograde amnesia?
A patient with impaired episodic memory would most likely have the greatest difficulty in....
What is remembering their life/personal story?
A(n) ____ is a mental representation used for a variety of cognitive functions, including memory, reasoning, and using and understanding language.
What is a concept?
Imagine you are driving to a friend’s new house. In your mind, you say the address repeatedly until you arrive. Once you arrive, you stop thinking about the address and start to think about buying a housewarming gift for your friend. To remember the address, you used a(n) _______ process in STM.
What is a control process?
This type of memory contains our general knowledge, facts, information
What is semantic memory?
When light from a flashlight is moved quickly back and forth on a wall in a darkened room, it can appear to observers that there is a trail of light moving across the wall, even though physically the light is only in one place at any given time. This experience is an effect of memory that occurs because of....
What is the persistence of vision.
Compared to the whole-report technique, the partial-report procedure involves this...
What is a smaller response set?
According to Rosch, the ____ level of categories is the psychologically "privileged" level of category that reflects people's everyday experience.
What is the basic level?
The emphasis of the concept of working memory is on how information is
What is manipulated?
This type of memory contains knowledge about how to do skills
What is procedural?
People have # of prototypes of concepts, but the they have # of exemplars. (Give an estimate for each #)
What is 1 prototype, what are many exemplars?
Bartlett’s experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the “War of the Ghosts” story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the...
What is the constructive nature of memory?
Which approach to categorization can more easily take into account atypical cases such as flightless birds?
What is the exemplar approach?
Peterson and Peterson studied how well participants can remember groups of three letters (like BRT, QSD) after various delays. They found that participants remembered an average of 80 percent of the groups after 3 seconds but only 10 percent after 18 seconds. They hypothesized that this decrease in performance was due to _____, but later research showed that it was actually due to _____.
What is decay; interference?
This type of memory, where classification or identification of a stimulus is improved by prior presentation of the same stimulus
What is repetition priming?
If basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal wanted to remember his 16-digit credit card number, which of the following memory techniques would you recommend?
What is He should think of the numbers as a sequence of basketball statistics.
Your text describes two experiments that measured people’s memory for what they were doing when they heard about the terrorist attack on 9/11. Results of these experiments show that participants...
What is believed their memories for the attack were accurate over a 52-week period and displayed memory for the flashbulb event that declined with time.
Collins and Loftus modified the original semantic network theory of Collins and Quillian to satisfy some of the criticisms of the original model. In their modification, Collins and Loftus account for the typicality effect by
What is using shorter links to connect more closely related concepts
Which of the following sets of results shows evidence of proactive interference with a three-trial recall task? (Note: Read the selections as percent correct for Trial 1: Trial 2: Trial 3)
a. 20% : 50 % : 70% correct
b. 80% : 40% : 30% correct
c. 30 % : 30% : 30% correct
d. 70% : 40% : 60% correct
What is b?
Name the types of implicit and explicit memory, respectively
What are implicit (repetition priming and procedural) and explicit (semantic and episodic)?
Wei has allergy symptoms. He has gone to his regular doctor and an allergy specialist, but he wasn’t given a prescription by either doctor. Instead, he was advised to buy any over-the-counter medicine. While he was in the specialist’s waiting area, he read a magazine where he saw three ads for an allergy medicine called SneezeLess. A week later, in a drug store, Wei says to his brother, “My doctor says SneezeLess works great. I’ll buy that one.” Wei and his doctor never discussed SneezeLess. Wei has fallen victim to which errors?
What is a Source monitoring error?
____ occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the sentence.
What is pragmatic inference?
One of the key properties of the _____ approach is that a specific concept is represented by activity that is distributed over many units in the network.
What is connectionist?