Cognitive Psych Exam 2 A+ Pass
1) Remembering that a tomato is actually a fruit rather than vegetable is an example of
____ memory. - Answer ✔✔- semantic
2) The three structural components of the modal model of memory are - Answer ✔✔-
sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory.
3) Information remains in sensory memory for - Answer ✔✔- seconds or a fraction of a
second
4) 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 - Answer ✔✔- persistence of vision
5) Compared to the whole-report technique, the partial-report procedure involves -
Answer ✔✔- a smaller response set.
6) Brief sensory memory for sound is known as - Answer ✔✔- echoic memory.
Peterson and Peterson - Answer ✔✔- decay; interference
If Peyton Manning, a professional football player, wanted to remember his 16-digit credit
card number, which of the following memory techniques would you recommend? -
Answer ✔✔- He should think of the numbers as a sequence of football statistics.
9) A person with a reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with ____
memory. - Answer ✔✔- short term
10) The "magic number," according to Miller, is - Answer ✔✔- 7 plus or minus 2
11) Which of the following represents the most effective chunking of the digit sequence
14929111776? - Answer ✔✔- 1492 911 1776
12) The research by Ericsson and colleagues (1980) examined the ability of a college
student to achieve amazing feats of memory by having him remember strings of random
digits that were recited to him. They found that this student used his experience with
running times to help him retain these strings of numbers. The significance of this
finding was that - Answer ✔✔- chunking requires knowledge of familiar patterns or
concepts.
Lamar - Answer ✔✔- retroactive interference.
, 14) Conduct an experiment where participants see a number of target letters flashed
briefly on a screen and are told to immediately write down the letters in the order they
were presented. It is most likely that the target letter "P" will be misidentified as -
Answer ✔✔- C
15) Observations that people may actually process and manipulate information rather
than simply store it for brief periods of time challenged the conceptualization of - Answer
✔✔- short-term memory
16) The emphasis of the concept of working memory is on how information is - Answer
✔✔- manipulated
17) Given what we know about the operation of the phonological loop, which of the
following word lists would be most difficult for people to retain for 15 seconds? - Answer
✔✔- MAC, CAN, CAP, MAN, MAP
18) The word-length effect shows that it is more difficult to remember - Answer ✔✔- the
phonological loop of the working memory model has a limited capacity.
19) think of the words and hum the melody of one song while the radio is playing a
different song? - Answer ✔✔- articulatory suppression
20) Articulatory suppression does all but which of the following? - Answer ✔✔- It
interferes with semantic coding.
21) According to the model of working memory, which of the following mental tasks
should LEAST adversely affect people's driving performance while operating a car along
an unfamiliar, winding road? - Answer ✔✔- Trying to remember the definition of a word
they just learned
22) It is easier to perform two tasks at the same time if - Answer ✔✔- one is handled by
the sketch pad and one is handled by the phonological loop.
23) One function of ____ is to pull information out of long-term memory. - Answer ✔✔-
the central executive
24) 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 ✔✔- perseveration
25) The episodic buffer directly connects to which two components in Baddeley's model
of memory? - Answer ✔✔- The central executive and long-term memory
1) Remembering that a tomato is actually a fruit rather than vegetable is an example of
____ memory. - Answer ✔✔- semantic
2) The three structural components of the modal model of memory are - Answer ✔✔-
sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory.
3) Information remains in sensory memory for - Answer ✔✔- seconds or a fraction of a
second
4) 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 - Answer ✔✔- persistence of vision
5) Compared to the whole-report technique, the partial-report procedure involves -
Answer ✔✔- a smaller response set.
6) Brief sensory memory for sound is known as - Answer ✔✔- echoic memory.
Peterson and Peterson - Answer ✔✔- decay; interference
If Peyton Manning, a professional football player, wanted to remember his 16-digit credit
card number, which of the following memory techniques would you recommend? -
Answer ✔✔- He should think of the numbers as a sequence of football statistics.
9) A person with a reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with ____
memory. - Answer ✔✔- short term
10) The "magic number," according to Miller, is - Answer ✔✔- 7 plus or minus 2
11) Which of the following represents the most effective chunking of the digit sequence
14929111776? - Answer ✔✔- 1492 911 1776
12) The research by Ericsson and colleagues (1980) examined the ability of a college
student to achieve amazing feats of memory by having him remember strings of random
digits that were recited to him. They found that this student used his experience with
running times to help him retain these strings of numbers. The significance of this
finding was that - Answer ✔✔- chunking requires knowledge of familiar patterns or
concepts.
Lamar - Answer ✔✔- retroactive interference.
, 14) Conduct an experiment where participants see a number of target letters flashed
briefly on a screen and are told to immediately write down the letters in the order they
were presented. It is most likely that the target letter "P" will be misidentified as -
Answer ✔✔- C
15) Observations that people may actually process and manipulate information rather
than simply store it for brief periods of time challenged the conceptualization of - Answer
✔✔- short-term memory
16) The emphasis of the concept of working memory is on how information is - Answer
✔✔- manipulated
17) Given what we know about the operation of the phonological loop, which of the
following word lists would be most difficult for people to retain for 15 seconds? - Answer
✔✔- MAC, CAN, CAP, MAN, MAP
18) The word-length effect shows that it is more difficult to remember - Answer ✔✔- the
phonological loop of the working memory model has a limited capacity.
19) think of the words and hum the melody of one song while the radio is playing a
different song? - Answer ✔✔- articulatory suppression
20) Articulatory suppression does all but which of the following? - Answer ✔✔- It
interferes with semantic coding.
21) According to the model of working memory, which of the following mental tasks
should LEAST adversely affect people's driving performance while operating a car along
an unfamiliar, winding road? - Answer ✔✔- Trying to remember the definition of a word
they just learned
22) It is easier to perform two tasks at the same time if - Answer ✔✔- one is handled by
the sketch pad and one is handled by the phonological loop.
23) One function of ____ is to pull information out of long-term memory. - Answer ✔✔-
the central executive
24) 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 ✔✔- perseveration
25) The episodic buffer directly connects to which two components in Baddeley's model
of memory? - Answer ✔✔- The central executive and long-term memory
