Exam 5: Short-Term and Working Memory

Consider an experiment in which participants were asked to remember Chinese symbols called radicals (which have no sound)and symbols called characters (which consist of a radical plus another symbol).The fact that the participants were able to remember some of the radicals provides evidence for the operation of _____ coding.

Clive Wearing, the ex-choral director, experienced what memory problem?

Information is coded in STM exclusively through an auditory code.

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.

The word-length effect shows that it is more difficult to remember

Sam has an extensive vocabulary because she is actively learning new words all the time. When Sam reads a word she does not recognize, she repeats its spelling until she looks it up in a dictionary.When she sees the word again on subsequent pages, she remembers the meaning. Describe the structural features of the modal model and control processes involved in the above example.