Exam 5: Short term and Working Memory.

According to your text,when students are asked the top functions for which they use their memories,all but which of the following are commonly identified?

The emphasis of the concept of working memory is on how information is

Funahashi and coworkers recorded neurons in the PF cortex of monkeys during a delayed response task.These neurons showed the most intense firing during

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

A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the,the,the' out loud,look away,and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying

A property of control processes in the modal model of memory is that they

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 which of the following components of working memory?

Lamar has just gotten a new job and is attending a company party where he will meet his colleagues for the first time.His boss escorts him around to small groups to introduce him.At the first group,Lamar meets four people and is told only their first names.The same thing happens with a second group and a third group.At the fourth group,Lamar is told their names and that one of the women in the group is the company accountant.A little while later,Lamar realizes that while remembers the names of the people in the fourth group,he can no longer recall the names of anyone he met earlier in the party.Lamar's experience demonstrates

STM's capacity is best estimated as seven (plus or minus two)

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

Compare and contrast the phenomena of proactive and retroactive interference.Then,use these two concepts to describe successful strategies for studying in college.

The "magic number," according to Miller,is

Neuralrefers to a neural response,usually brain activation measured by fMRI,to determine what a person is perceiving or thinking.

Jill's friends tell her they think she has a really good memory.She finds this interesting so she decides to purposefully test her memory.Jill receives a list of to-do tasks each day at work.Usually,she checks off each item as the day progresses,but this week,she is determined to memorize the to-do lists.On Monday,Jill is proud to find that she remembers 95 percent of the tasks without referring to the list.On Tuesday,her memory drops to 80 percent,and by Thursday,she is dismayed to see her performance has declined to 20 percent.Jill's memory is declining over the course of the week because other information she encounters is "competing" with that which she memorized on Monday.This process is called

Working memory differs from short-term memory in that

Imagine you are driving to a friend's new house.In your mind,you say the address repeatedly until you arrive.Once you arrive,you stop thinking about the address and start to think about buying a housewarming gift for your friend.To remember the address,you used a(n)process in STM.

Articulatory suppression causes a decrease in the word-length effect because