Exam 2: Sensory Persistence and Information Persistence

Vincent Di Lollo's experiment (1980) found that the number of errors increased as the duration of the first set of dots increased, indicating that stimulus persistence appeared to ________, as the duration of the stimulus increased.

What is an example of a temporal-integration paradigm experiment and what does this experiment demonstrate? You may want to include a diagram to illustrate your answer.

Morton et al. (1971) explored echoic memory. In one condition they added a buzzer sound as a suffix, and in the other condition they added a ________ sound as a suffix.

What assumptions did early cognitive psychologists make about sensory memory?

The main conclusion of Sperling's work is ________.

What parts of the brain are responsible for stimulus persistence?

"Output interference," one of the main critiques to Sperling's model, refers to ________.

What occurred during the experiments by Di Lollo (1980) and Irwin and Yeoman (1986)? What were their main conclusions? Why are these conclusions important for sensory memory research?

"Pre-categorical" refers to ________.

What is echoic memory?

What are the relevance of dorsal and ventral streams in stimulus and information persistence? You may want to include a diagram to illustrate your answer.

The modality effect is ________.

As reported by Kojima et al. (2014), "Patient X" could ________.

Sensory memory is important because it ________.

Several studies have shown that identity information in the partial-report task lasts much longer that location information. This observation is important because ________.

What are the modality effect and the suffix effect in echoic memory research?

Echoic memory is ________.

A modality effect is attributed to ________.

In Vincent Di Lollo's experiment (1980), participants were presented with 12 dots placed at random on a 5×5 matrix, which had 25 potential locations. Following an interstimulus interval, dots were placed at random in 12 of the 13 remaining locations and subjects were asked to ________.

Kojima et al.'s (2014) case of "Patient X'' is important because ________.