UNIT 2

What is the most common type of model in Psychology?

• Formal models

• Conceptual models

• Analytical models

What is a model?

• A human construct that helps to predict and understand the real world

• The result of a factor analysis

• A theory

What is a modal?

• A set of models about the same phenomena

• A set of theories about the same phenomena

• Both

What does the Atkinson and Shirin modal model originally explain?

• What is the total time hypothesis

• The structures and processes implicated in memory

• What is the forgetting curve

What is the current conceptualization of the Atkinson and Shirin model?

• There are three main systems of memory

• There is only one type of memory because memory is a unitary system

• There are two systems for memory

According to the computer metaphor, what is the equivalent of RAM memory?

• Long term memory

• Short-term memory

• Echoic memory

What is the dierence between short-term memory and working memory?

• Both are the same

• The memory span

• The material they retain

What measures the digit span test?

• The span of long-term memory

• The span of short-term memory

• Both

What are some requirements for the digit span test?

• It must be carried out in the native language of the person

• It must be retrieved in serial order

• Both

What is more memorable?

• A set of vowels and consonants that cannot be pronounced

• A set of consonants

• A set of vowels and consonants that can be pronounced