Exam 3: Working Memory

An individual was involved in a traumatic occurrence and did not seem to be able to remember more than a few words but could still maintain a working memory.However, his speech was slower than normal.The amount of time it took him to pronounce a word is called ______.

The digit span task reports the amount of information that can be maintained in working memory.

George Sperling (1960) demonstrated the hypothetical existence of iconic memory or visual sensory memory.Regarding this experiment, which of the following statements is true?

Strayer and his colleagues have found:

The neural structures and which processes make up the working memory.

PET and fMRI data show that working memory functions are housed in the:

A task that prevents maintaining of working memory is:

A ______ span task can only be used in specific experiments.These experiments involve memory presented by an experimenter to determine memory.

An experimenter presents a list of words for participants to free recall in any order.She uses two conditions-one in which the words are read slowly and one in which the words are read fast.You should expect her to find:

Short-term memory for a short period of time is for what kind of introspection?

The Duration of Information in Working Memory is defined as the amount of time information will remain in working memory if not:

Elaborative rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal do basically the same thing in memory.

An episodic buffer links two systems together and is activated when meaning needs to be extracted from the:

The term for repeating information over and over is called:

Research on training working memory shows that:

Word length does not affect memory.

Primary memory is a term used to mean ______ memory.

Irrelevant speech has direct implications on this kind of improvement.

Explain the irrelevant speech effect.

According to George Miller, the capacity of working memory is estimated to be: