316 Review for Exam 2

Baddeley and Hitch proposed that the working memory system is composed of 4 main parts. Which is NOT one of them?

• phonological loop

• visuo-spatial sketchpad

• central executive

• iconic memory

If you are told to decide whether each word in a list has a letter "e" in it, your later memory for those words will be relatively poor because this is a (a)   processing task.

Participants are asked to memorize a list of words. In addition to the words themselves, participants will remember some aspects of the context in which the words appeared. This tendency to remember a stimulus along with its context is referred to as (a)   .

If you perceive a stimulus and then later perceive the same stimulus again, you are likely to perceive the stimulus more quickly and more easily the second time. This benefit can be described as a(n)

• context-dependent memory

• explicit memory

• increase in processing fluency.

• recognition memory

When presented with a list of words along a theme (e.g., “bed,” “rest,” “slumber,” “dream,” “tired”), participants often (mis)recall the theme word as part of the list (e.g., “sleep”). This procedure is commonly referred to as the

• missing word illusion.

• word superiority effect

• DRM procedure

• misinformation effect

    Erin, who has Korsakoff’s amnesia, is asked to perform in a memory experiment. Erin is likely to

• be capable of some sorts of learning but do poorly in explicit tests of memory.

• recall explicitly events that she has witnessed but not things that she has done.

• perform well on tests requiring conscious recollection even though her performance is poor if memory is tested indirectly.

• be unable to recall material learned in the past even though she explicitly recognizes the material when she encounters it.

One property of iconic memory, a sub-type of sensory memory, is that

• complex processing is required to form iconic memories.

• only one visual stimulus can be processed at a time.

• iconic memories decay quickly.

• visual information is easily held for 30-60 seconds.

(a)   memory is limited in capacity, but is generally easier to get information in to and out of.