Chapter 3 part 2

Question 1

Phonological similarity effect
Memory span is reduced for similar ____ items, much more than items with similar ____

Answer 1

sounding; meanings

Question 2

When a ____ task is introduced following a study item, memory for that item is ____.

Answer 2

distractor; diminished

Question 3

Time-based forgetting cannot explain some results in the Peterson Task, and observed that forgetting is pretty nonexistent on early trials but builds up over trials. This suggests that forgetting is caused by ____ from previous trials, which are typically similar to subsequent ones.

Answer 3

interference

Question 4

Word-length effect
Recall ____ as the word length ____

Answer 4

decreases; increases

Question 5

The rule of thumb of the word-length effect: People can remember about as many words as they can say in ____ seconds

Answer 5

2

Question 6

When the phonological similarity test relies on LTM, ____ similarity becomes much more relevant than ____ similarity

Answer 6

semantic; phonological

Question 7

Primacy is attributed to retrieval from ____-____ ____, whereas recency is attributed to retrieval from ____-____ ____

Answer 7

Long-term memory; Short-term memory

Question 8

In the Luck and Vogel (1997) experiment, the ____ squares presented, the ____ percent of answers were correct.

Answer 8

more; less

Question 9

In the Allen, Baddeley and Hitch (2006) study, corrected recognition of colored squares decreased when there is a ____ task.

Answer 9

concurrent

Question 10

The Klauer and Zhao experiment demonstrated that…

Answer 10

Spatial/visual distractors interfere with the same type of tasks the most, but the spatial distractor has more effect on visual task than the other way around.