PSY Quiz - Memory models/memory reliability

According to Atkinson and Shiffrin, the first step in placing information into memory storage is...

• Reconstruction

• Short-term memory

• Sensory memory

• Rehearsal

Which is true about Short Term Memory?

• It is limited in capacity, but limitless in duration.

• It is limited in both capacity and duration.

• It is limitless in capacity, but limited in duration.

• It is limitless in both capacity and duration.

Which of the following determines whether information moves from sensory memory to short-term memory?

• The size of the information

• Rehearsal

• Attention to the stimulus

• The modality of the stimulus - whether it is auditory or visual

Remembering the first and last items of a list better than the items in the middle of a list can be explained by...

• Rehearsal of the early words - and the fact that the last words are still in STM.

• Displacement of information from the STM store.

• Brain damage

• The limit of only 7 plus or minus items in STM.

What is the key difference between the Multi Store Model and the Working Memory Model?

• The Working Memory Model argues that there is more than one LTM store.

• The Working Memory Model argues that there is more than one STM store.

• The Working Memory Model argues that rehearsal does not move information from STM to LTM.

• The Working Memory Model argues that STM is of unlimited capacity and duration.

If you are trying to learn a song in Latin for your school choir, when you are practicing those ancient Roman words in your head, what part of the Working Memory Model is being used?

• The episodic buffer

• The visuo-spatial sketchpad

• The phonological loop

• The central executive

Kate thinks that she can do her Math homework while having a conversation with a friend on the phone. What prediction would the working memory model make?

• Performance will not be impaired, because the episodic buffer can integrate information from different working memory subsystems

• Performance will not be impaired, because the tasks utilize different working memory subsystems

• Performance will be impaired, because doing Math and talking to a friend both utilize the phonological loop

• Performance will be impaired, since the central executive cannot focus on two tasks at once

In the famous Loftus and Palmer car crash study, it was found that when a more intense verb is used, participants reported a higher speed.

• True

• False

When participants had the question with the more intense verb (smashed), they were more likely to recall seeing broken glass than those that had the less intense verb (hit).

• True

• False

What do psychologists mean when they say that memory is reconstructed?

• Memory works like a videocamera.

• We piece together a memory from bits of information that we have in our schema.

• Memory is unbiased.

• Memory us always accurate and reliable.