EXP3604C Test 2 FSU questions and
answers graded A+
Old (modal model) of short-term to long-term memory *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔- *Early
model of memory that treats memory as series of separate stores*
--with main ones being *short-term memory versus long-term memory*
- *These components receive input from, and send input to, one another.*
- This involves the *primacy effect and recency effect*
Why do psychologists think there is a difference between short-term and long-term memory
*(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔- The modal model continues to explain basic contrasts between
STM and LTM.
- *WM stores information CURRENTLY being thought about; LTM stores ALL the information one
knows.*
- *WM is LIMITED in capacity; LTM is GREAT incapacity.*
- *WM is EASILY loaded and accessed; LTM is LESS EASILY loaded and accessed.*
- *WM is FRAGILE and easily displaced; LTM is more ENDURING*
how do those two kinds of memory map onto primacy effect and recency effect in recall of lists
of words *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔*PRIMACY EFFECT*
,- *Better memory for first few items*
- *Long-term memory*
- *More Memory rehearsal.*
- *associated with activity in the hippocampus*
- With free recall, participants are likely to remember the first few items in the list.
- The primacy effect is based in long-term memory.
- During list presentation, the first few items receive the most memory rehearsal and are
transferred from WM to LTM.
*RECENCY EFFECT*
- *Better memory for the last few items*
- *Last items held in short-term memory*
- With free recall, participants are likely to remember the last few items in the list.
- The recency effect is based in working memory.
- At the end of list presentation, the last few items are currently in working memory and are
often the first items to be reported.
, Baddeley theory of working memory *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔*COMPONENTS*
1. Central Executive
2. Visuospatial Buffer
3. Articulatory Loop
- Fill up short term memory with 6 to 8 digits, then give reasoning problem.
- Should be impossible, no "place" to work on problem (short-term memory full)
- Increase in reasoning time with increasing digit load is significant, but not large (35%).
- No effect on errors
- People can keep reasoning even though their "short-term memory" should be full of the digits.
So more to working memory than just a store of 7 +- 2 chunks of info (in this case, digits).
Working Memory *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔- a dynamic form of short-term memory
- Working on task (doing something, such as reasoning, thinking about what you read, doing
problems) while keeping information about it activated.
How was the modal model updated? *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔- Sensory memory plays a
smaller role in modern theories.
- Working memory is a more recent term for short-term memory, emphasizing its function. It is
dynamic because it is adaptive and does more than simply store information.
answers graded A+
Old (modal model) of short-term to long-term memory *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔- *Early
model of memory that treats memory as series of separate stores*
--with main ones being *short-term memory versus long-term memory*
- *These components receive input from, and send input to, one another.*
- This involves the *primacy effect and recency effect*
Why do psychologists think there is a difference between short-term and long-term memory
*(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔- The modal model continues to explain basic contrasts between
STM and LTM.
- *WM stores information CURRENTLY being thought about; LTM stores ALL the information one
knows.*
- *WM is LIMITED in capacity; LTM is GREAT incapacity.*
- *WM is EASILY loaded and accessed; LTM is LESS EASILY loaded and accessed.*
- *WM is FRAGILE and easily displaced; LTM is more ENDURING*
how do those two kinds of memory map onto primacy effect and recency effect in recall of lists
of words *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔*PRIMACY EFFECT*
,- *Better memory for first few items*
- *Long-term memory*
- *More Memory rehearsal.*
- *associated with activity in the hippocampus*
- With free recall, participants are likely to remember the first few items in the list.
- The primacy effect is based in long-term memory.
- During list presentation, the first few items receive the most memory rehearsal and are
transferred from WM to LTM.
*RECENCY EFFECT*
- *Better memory for the last few items*
- *Last items held in short-term memory*
- With free recall, participants are likely to remember the last few items in the list.
- The recency effect is based in working memory.
- At the end of list presentation, the last few items are currently in working memory and are
often the first items to be reported.
, Baddeley theory of working memory *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔*COMPONENTS*
1. Central Executive
2. Visuospatial Buffer
3. Articulatory Loop
- Fill up short term memory with 6 to 8 digits, then give reasoning problem.
- Should be impossible, no "place" to work on problem (short-term memory full)
- Increase in reasoning time with increasing digit load is significant, but not large (35%).
- No effect on errors
- People can keep reasoning even though their "short-term memory" should be full of the digits.
So more to working memory than just a store of 7 +- 2 chunks of info (in this case, digits).
Working Memory *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔- a dynamic form of short-term memory
- Working on task (doing something, such as reasoning, thinking about what you read, doing
problems) while keeping information about it activated.
How was the modal model updated? *(Ch.6)* - correct answer ✔✔- Sensory memory plays a
smaller role in modern theories.
- Working memory is a more recent term for short-term memory, emphasizing its function. It is
dynamic because it is adaptive and does more than simply store information.
