Exam 8: Short-Term Retention

Sara's frontal lobe injury has led to her being unable to focus her attention on one task for any substantial amount of time. Sara is most likely experiencing:

Which of the following statements best represents the consciousness binding problem?

The conceptual element that was included in Atkinson & Shiffrin's modal model of memory that was missing from James's and Waugh & Norman's accounts of memory was:

Which of the following is not a component of Working Memory?

Information in STM can exist in an acoustic or semantic form.

The ability to recall the answer choices in question 8.10 would most directly depend upon which of the following elements of Working Memory?

At the start of her calculus class, Professor Ann Siety tells her class that "while math majors do well in this class, non-science majors tend to earn very low grades." Steve, an English major who is already nervous about being in this class, remembers this statement all semester long, and during each exam, his anxiety becomes so overpowering that he forgets to answer many questions, and fails each one. His friend Jon, however, who is also an English major, missed the first class where the professor made her statement; he is nowhere near as nervous about the class as his friend. Steve's performance, relative to Jon's, can be seen as arising from:

While taking an exam, Monica is integrating all of the material she studied, along with the visual and phonological codes of this information, and in the process is able to recall massive chunks of information that each contain close to 20 individual pieces of data. Such an ability is most likely being mediated by which element of her working memory?

The suffix effect tends to:

The inability to remember new information as a result of older information blocking one's retrieval ability is known as

Joe is having a hard time taking notes in Professor Jones's class, because he can't repeat the professor's words fast enough to hold them in his mind and write them down. Joe's memory difficulty is most likely stemming from a difficulty within which working memory component?

Some people argue against two-store theories because:

Successful performance on memory span tests are believed to rely of which of the following systems?

Animal research shows that animals possess which of the following human-like skills?

Mary suffered a stroke, the result of which damaged the Episodic Buffer of her Working Memory. As a result, Mary will likely have difficulty when she:

STM deficits can be used to assess:

Betty's grandmother died 10 years ago, and although Betty can remember what her grandmother looked like, she can no longer recall her grandmother's voice. This type of memory loss is consistent with which memory related theory?

The concept of one, as opposed to multiple, memory system responsible for the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information has been widely accepted by memory researchers.

James is conducting an experiment that involves having subjects read a set of 3 words from a computer monitor, and then press the [SPACE BAR] key on the computer's keyboard once all three items have been read. Which of the following individuals is likely to show the slowest ability at completing this task?

Mary is at a party, talking to Tom. However, in the middle of her conversation, she hears her name mentioned across the room, and almost immediately turns her attention to the place in the room from where she believes she heard her name. The element of Working Memory most responsible for this shifting of attention is most likely the: