Exam 4: Sensory and Short-Term Memory

One way to reduce the amount of forgetting of information in short-term memory is through a process known as __________.

A unit of information in short-term memory is often called a __________.

What is the term used to describe the mental representation of information in visual sensory memory?

What is the cause of the suffix effect?

A primacy effect in short-term memory for actions is ________ than normal.

Inhibition models of serial order short-term memory suggest that __________.

What is the perturbation theory of short-term memory?

A distractor task at the end of a short-term memory list of items will likely reduce the _______ effect.

For context-based models of short-term serial order memory, the correct order in which information is to be recalled is influenced by __________.

The size of working memory capacity is __________ in people using ASL (American sign language)

In general, the sensory registers have a __________ capacity and a ____________ duration.

Which of the following is the best reason that the slot-based model is an implausible account of serial-order memory?

Haptic sensory memory __________.

Why is there a recency effect at the end of a serial position curve?

The greater forgetting of end-list items in short-term memory is a reflection of the ________ effect.

In serial position curves, the __________ effect is attributed to short-term memory and the _______ effect to long-term memory.

What is the duration of information in short-term memory?

In Averbach's research on visual sensory memory, when people were briefly presented (150-600 ms) with arrays of dots, what was the apparent span of apprehension?

What does research on anorthoscopic perception tell us about iconic memory?

People's ability to detect changes in the world suggests that visual memory is __________.