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

Words from the beginning of a list are more likely to be recalled than words from the middle of the list.This phenomenon is known as the ______ effect.

Of the following,which allows us to increase the amount of information that we process in short-term memory while still adhering to its limited capacity?

PET scan studies ______.

Words in the middle of a list tend to be remembered better than words at the end of a list.

Studies of coding in short-term memory suggest that which of the following would be most difficult to recall correctly?

Which of the following seems to be true of both echoes and icons?

The ______ component of working memory is thought to be a temporary storage system that interacts with long-term memory and the other components of working memory to facilitate the transfer of information to long-term memory.

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

Daydreams are a type of ______.

Attended information is held for periods of less than 1 second in short-term memory.

Research suggests that short-term memory is searched in parallel,rather than serially.

Echoic memory is thought to last ______.

PET scans show that verbal working memory tasks tend to activate areas in the ______ lobe.

Experiments indicate that storing a string of six digits in short-term memory interferes with the ability to ______.

According to the primacy effect,which of the following should show the best memory recall?

You have just listened to a list of 20 words.When asked to recall these words in any order,you are LEAST LIKELY to recall the ______ word.

Currently,cognitive psychologists are more likely to believe that ______.

Which of Atkinson and Shiffrin's different memory storage components is most closely linked to perception?

Information in short-term memory is assumed to be coded primarily by ______.

The concept of fluid intelligence is highly related to ______.