Psych 3312 chapters 5-7

Stroop interference indicates that:

• word reading is automatized

• the identification of a stimulus requires few resources

• practice with a color-naming task leads to automaticity

• automatic tasks do not exist

The famous patient H.M. is unable to remember events he experienced after his brain surgery. The surgery apparently produced:

• repression

• anterograde amnesia

• retrograde amnesia

• infantile amnesia

When asked to recall a list of 25 words, participants are likely to remember only some of them. The words recalled are likely to include:

• the last 12 or so words on the list

• the first few words on the list, and also the last six or so words on the list

• the first 12 or so words on the list

• words drawn from positions scattered throughout the list

By thinking of a list of digits in terms of racing times, one person was shown to report up to 79 digits. This suggests that this person:

• has a larger working memory than most other participants

• is well practiced at memory retrieval

• can remember this information due to a unique chunking strategy

• does not show the primacy or recency effect

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

• a mnemonic strategy

• the method of loci

• the method of repetition

• memory rehearsal

If a participant is asked to perform two activities at the same time, performance will be improved if:

• the two activities are highly dissimilar, drawing on different task-specific resources

• the two activities are highly similar, drawing on the same task-specific resources

• both activities require large amounts of task-general resources

• neither activity involves verbal processing

Deep processing may lead to improved memory performance because it facilitates retrieval. How exactly does this happen?

• Deep processing leads to the formation of many connections between the current item and previous knowledge.

• Deep processing leads items to be kept in working memory.

• Deep processing encourages use of mnemonics.

• Deep processing leads to fewer retrieval paths, making the correct path easier to access.

How many items can be stored in Short Term Memory?

• 3

• 7 +/- 2

• 12

• unlimited

Failure to see a change in a scene is known as ___________

• dichotic listening

• selective attention

• priming

• change blindness

If you study information in one room, you will remember information best in the same room. This is due to_______

• change blindness

• state-dependent learning

• expectation-based priming

• dichotic listening