Exam 5: The Acquisition of Memories and the Working-Memory System

A student wishes to memorize an essay so that he will be able to recall the essay's content later on. Which of the following is likely to be LEAST helpful to him?

Which of these is LEAST important for memory acquisition?

A participant is trying to memorize the word "parade." To help herself, she thinks about the word within a complicated sentence: "From their third-floor apartment, they had a great view of all the bands, the cowboys, and the floats in the Thanksgiving parade." This learning strategy will produce

Which of the following is NOT considered a modern change to the modal model of memory?

Which of the following exemplifies the memory effects of repeated exposure without intention to remember?

The operations through which we gain new knowledge, retain that knowledge, and later use that knowledge are often divided into three categories. Which of the following is NOT one of those categories?

An experimenter reads a list of 30 words to a group of participants at the rate of one word per second. This is immediately followed by a free-recall test. A second group of participants hears the same 30 words presented at the faster rate of two words per second. We should expect that the group hearing the slower presentation will show improved memory performance for the

Why is the term "working memory" now preferred over "short-term memory"?

One difference between working memory and long-term memory is that

The helper that stores visual materials is called the

Several researchers have compared brain activity during the learning process for words that were later remembered or forgotten. Which of the following is NOT consistent with their findings?

Which of the following is NOT an attribute of working memory (sometimes called short-term memory)?

A helpful analogy for the encoding and retrieval process in long-term memory is

In general, any technique designed to improve memory is referred to as

Working memory (WM) has been likened to a desk space that holds the current information for a short period of time. This analogy is problematic in what way?

Which of the following groups is MOST likely to remember the material they are studying?

Within working memory, "helpers" like the visuospatial buffer and articulatory rehearsal loop

A participant who is asked to recall a series of numbers chooses to think about the numbers as though they were years (e.g., 1, 9, 9, 7 becomes "The year I turned 16"). The participant is organizing information into the memory unit known as a(n)

Your friend is having a hard time in biology and would like some tips on studying for the class. What advice would you give your friend? Include at least three suggestions based on the information you have learned in this chapter.

Early estimates of working-memory capacity relied on the digit-span task. The data indicate working memory capacity to be