Deck 3: Short-Term Memory

Question 1

Which of these tasks would NOT rely heavily on visuo-spatial short-term memory?
(A)Remembering your way through an unfamiliar city
(B)Remembering what was in the corner of your room
(C)Remembering a special occasion from your life
(D)Recalling patterns for half-completed matrixes
(E)Remembering a series of block taps

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which effect, seen in free recall, involves a tendency for items from the beginning and end of the list to be recalled best?
(A)Mirror
(B)Serial position
(C)Phonological similarity
(D)Word length
(E)List length

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Luck and Vogel (1997)used a variant of which method to investigate the nature of visual short-term memory?
(A)Change blindness
(B)Change detection
(C)Complex span
(D)Serial reaction time
(E)Priming

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The sound of a word such as "DOG," as opposed to its visual form, would be considered which type of feature in Nairne's Feature model?
(A)Episodic
(B)Modality independent
(C)Stroop
(D)Modality dependent
(E)Semantic

Question 5

Visual short-term memory is thought to solve the problem of combining brief ________ (occurring about twice a second)into a coherent representation.
(A)Fixations
(B)Neural spikes
(C)Refractory periods
(D)Pattern matches
(E)Optical illusions

Question 6

Karlson, Allen, Baddeley, and Hitch (2010)found that which process did not appear to depend on general executive resources?
(A)Planning
(B)Working memory
(C)Binding
(D)Error correction
(E)Task switching

Question 7

Chunking random digits into groups of how many numbers generally works best at maximizing recall, according to Wickelgren (1964)and Ryan (1969)?
(A)Two
(B)Three
(C)Four
(D)Five
(E)Six

Question 8

Farrell and Lewandowski's (2002, 2003)SOB model proposes that order is maintained using which type of context signal?
(A)Temporal
(B)Time-based
(C)Space-based
(D)Oscillatory
(E)Event-based

Question 9

The block tapping test is typically used to establish which of the following metrics?
(A)Corgi span
(B)Digit span
(C)Object span
(D)Episodic span
(E)Corsi span

Question 10

In the Feature model, forgetting is assumed to depend on which process?
(A)Drift diffusion
(B)Trace decay
(C)Consolidation
(D)Interference
(E)Synaptogenesis

Question 11

What limits the capacity of visual STM? A.Working memory span B.Articulatory suppression C.Attentional blindness D.Word length effect

Question 12

Which structure is thought to be responsible for articulatory rehearsal?
(A)Phonological loop
(B)Central executive
(C)Visuo-spatial sketchpad
(D)Episodic buffer
(E)Peripheral nervous system

Question 13

When word lists are increased in length, and participants are allowed several learning trials, which type of similarity between items becomes much more important?
(A)Sound
(B)Phonological
(C)Meaning
(D)Visual
(E)Typographical

Question 14

Conrad (1964)suggested that visually presented consonant sequences depended on a short-term memory store that relies on which type of code?
(A)Latent
(B)Visual
(C)Somatosensory
(D)Semantic
(E)Acoustic

Question 15

Which of the following terms best describes the applicability of a finding to the real world?
(A)Criterion
(B)Internal
(C)Test-retest
(D)Ecological
(E)Predictive

Question 16

Baddeley and Hitch (1977)tested rugby players' memory and reported evidence for which form of recency?
(A)Visually guided
(B)Short-term
(C)Trauma-induced
(D)Long-term
(E)Flashbulb

Question 17

Which of these variables influence the recency effect?
(A)None of these
(B)Presentation rate
(C)Word frequency
(D)Word imageability
(E)Age of the participant

Question 18

Which of the following does best at predicting performance on reasoning tasks used to assess intelligence?
(A)Short-term buffer size
(B)Digit span
(C)Wing span
(D)Life span
(E)Working memory span

Question 19

SIMPLE (Brown et al., 2007)is best described as which type of model?
(A)Anatomical
(B)Linguistic
(C)Neurological
(D)Mathematical
(E)Physiological

Question 20

What does SIMPLE stand for in Brown et al.'s model of memory?
(A)Scale Intervention in Memory, Perception, and Language
(B)Semantic Intervention in Memory, Perception, and Learning
(C)Scale Invariant Memory, Perception, and Learning
(D)Scale Invariant Memory, Perception, and Language
(E)Semantic Intervention for Memory and Perceptual Lagging

Question 21

Patient KF displayed deficits for which memory system?
(A)Long-term memory
(B)Semantic memory
(C)Verbal short-term memory
(D)Long-term episodic memory
(E)Visual short-term memory

Question 22

Patient MV had damage to the right frontal lobe and particularly severe concomitant impairments in which domain?
(A)Visual short-term memory
(B)Spatial memory
(C)Color memory
(D)Shape memory
(E)Semantic memory