Exam 5: Short-Term Working Memory

Which of the following is NOT a component of Baddeley's working memory model?

Speeding up the rate of presentation in a list learning task will most likely __________.

What sort of secondary task in a dual-task study would most likely disrupt the central executive?

Describe the procedure used in the Brown-Peterson task,the standard findings,and the more recent conclusions drawn from the work of Waugh & Norman.

What component of working memory is involved in binding information from different modalities and from long-term memory?

Better memory for items at the beginning and end of a list is called the __________.

The Sternberg task produces __________.

The success of the Sternberg task illustrates the usefulness of __________.

Short-term memory is also called __________.

Adding 30 seconds of backwards counting between the study and test phases of a free recall list learning task __________.

Which is of the following does DLPFC mean?

According to Sternberg,short-term memory is search using what kind of process?

Which part of the working memory system is responsible for regulating the flow of information?

With representational momentum,people misremember moving objects as being further along their path of travel.

Why are cognitive psychologists so excited by Miller's "magical number seven plus or minus two"? What is it and what does it represent?

What is the best way to describe Donders' chronometric method?

The "Peterson & Peterson" interpretation of the Brown-Peterson task result was that the performance decrement was due to decay across time.

Rosen & Engle examined high- and low-span people performing an animal name generation task.Which did they demonstrate?

What is the boundary extension effect?

Daneman & Carpenter found that people with a working memory span of 2 got ____ percent correct in the "7 ago" condition of their pronoun test,but people with a memory span of 5 got ___ percent correct on the same test under the same conditions.