Exam 2

Question 1

Working memory differs from short term memory in that:

Answer 1

working memory is concerned with the manipulation of information.

Question 2

Memory enhancement due to conceptual priming is the result of

Answer 2

the test stimulus being similar in meaning to the priming stimulus

Question 3

The inability to encode or retain new knowledge after a traumatic brain injury is known as

Answer 3

anterograde amnesia

Question 4

The episodic buffer in Baddley’s model of memory serves as

Answer 4

To bring information from and store information in reference memory

Question 5

Clive Wearing, the ex-choral director, experienced what memory problem?

Answer 5

An inability to form long term memories

Question 6

The “magic number” according to Miller

Answer 6

7 +/- 2

Question 7

Which is an example of semantic memory?

Answer 7

I remember the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes

Question 8

Shanta has frontal lobe damage. She is doing a problem solving task in which she has to choose the red object out of many choices. She can easily complete this repeatedly, but when the experimenter asks her to choose the blue object on a new trial of the task, she continues to choose the red one, even when the experimenter gives her feedback that she is incorrect. Shanta is displaying

Answer 8

Preservation

Question 9

In Slameka and Graf’s (1978) study, some participants read word pairs, while other participants had to fill in the blank letters of the second word in a pair with a word related to the first word. The later group performed better on a later memory task, illustrating the

Answer 9

generation effect

Question 10

According to the model of working memory, which of the following mental tasks mental tasks should LEAST adversely affect people’s driving performance while operating a car along an unfamiliar, winding road?

Answer 10

Trying to remember the definition of a word they just learned

Question 11

Brief sensory memory for sound is known as

Answer 11

echoic memory

Question 12

Explicit memory is to _____ as implicit is to ______

Answer 12

declarative; non-declarative

Question 13

A patient suffering from Korsakoff’s syndrome, such as “Jimmy G” who is described in your text, would be able to perform which of the following activities without difficulty?

Answer 13

Performing motor tasks such as brushing his teeth

Question 14

The following statement represents (for most students in our class around the age of 20) what kind of memory?

Answer 14

Semantic

Question 15

The three structural components of the modal model of memory are

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Sensory memory, short-term memory, long term memory

Question 16

Information remains in the sensory memory for

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seconds or a fraction of a second

Question 17

Jeannie love to dance, having taken ballet for many years. She is now learning salsa dancing. Although movements are very different from the dances she is familiar with, she has found a successful memory strategy of linking the new dance information to her previous experiences as a dancer and to her own affection for dance. This strategy suggests reliance on

Answer 17

the self-reference effect

Question 18

Imagine yourself walking from your car, bus stop, or dorm to your first class. Your ability to form such a picture in your mind depends on

Answer 18

The visuospatial sketch pad

Question 19

If basketball ledgend Shaquille O’Neal wanted to remember his 16 digit credit card number, which of the following memory techniques would you recommend

Answer 19

He should think of the numbers as chunks of basketball statistics

Question 20

Where problems from working memory seem to arise with most traumatic brain injuries, physiological studies indicate that damage specifically to the area of the brain known as the ______ can disrupt behaviors that depend on working memory

Answer 20

prefrontal cortex