Exam 5: Working Memory: Forming and Using New Memory Traces

Of the following,which is NOT part of Atkinson and Shiffrin's modal model of memory?

What are some differences between iconic and echoic memory?

Information such as the name of the person who sat in front of you in the fifth grade is stored in ______ memory.

Briefly describe the three main types of memory posited by the modal approach.

Search processes in short-term memory are exhaustive.

"Forgetting""as described by most memory models involves ______.

The primacy and recency effects in memory ______.

If the search of short-term memory is self-terminating,then we would expect that ______.

The term "anterograde amnesia" refers to the loss of ______.

If rehearsal of information is disrupted,you'd likely see ______,but not ______.

Repeating a phone number to yourself to hold it in memory while you dial it would use which component of working memory?

Rehearsal ______ the likelihood information moves into ______ memory.

What technique can be used to lengthen the time that information stays in short-term memory?

Brain surgery patient "H.M." suffered after surgery from ______.

Comparing all items in a stimulus set simultaneously would be classified as a ______ search.

One basic physiological mechanism for learning is the ______ rule,which states that if a synapse between two neurons is repeatedly activated at about the same time the postsynaptic neuron fires,the chemistry of the synapse changes.

The effect of masking is usually that participants ______.

In the Brown-Peterson short-term memory task,recall performance was hurt most by ______.

"H.M." suffered from both anterograde and retrograde amnesia.

The production of stimulus-independent thoughts,such as daydreams,depends upon ______.