PSY 150: Chapter 7 (Test 4)

If you are given a list of vocabulary words to study briefly before being tested on your memory of them, as you read through the list, you should

• Memorize each word individually
• Skip over the words you don't know
• Use each word in a sentence

• Read the words quickly without paying attention

Elaborative rehearsal is a more effective memory strategy than maintenance rehearsal because the information is processed

• repeatedly

• more deeply

• based on sound

• more automatically

To work at Burger Shack, Meghan must memorize all of the menu items. To do this, Meghan thinks about which friend would want to order each item. Meghan is likely to retain the menu items in long-term storage very well because she used

• maintenance rehearsal
• rote rehearsal
• chunking
• elaborative rehearsal

In a memory experiment, Group A is asked to listen to a list of words. Group B is asked to count the number of e's in the words. Group C is asked to use each word in a sentence. According to the levels of processing model, what will the results of the experiment be?

• Group A will remember more words.

• Group C will remember more words.

• Group B will remember more words.

• All groups will remember the same amount of words

Which stage, according to the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory, is the first stage of memory processing

• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory
• Working memory
• Sensory memory

The address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the TV screen, but the image disappears before Sergei has had a chance to write down the complete address. To his surprise, however, he retains a mental image of the five-digit zip code which lasts for less than half a second. His experience best illustrates _________ memory.

• sensory (iconic)

• short-term

• long-term

• state-dependent

Liora is reading her textbook. As her eyes scan the page, each visual image is retained for less than a second in her

• episodic memory

• short-term storage

• working memory
• sensory storage

With rehearsal, information in short-term memory can be maintained for some time. Without rehearsal, the duration of short-term memory is

• 10-20 seconds

• about 5 seconds

• 1-2 minutes

• no longer than 1 second

While driving home, the car in front of you starts driving dangerously, so you concentrate on watching it. When you arrive home, you realize that you cannot remember anything from you drive home other than that car. Your memory is most likely due to the fact that we do not remember information

• to which we do not pay attention.

• that is very complex

• that exceeds the capacity of sensory storage

• that has two or more visual features

In an experiment, you are asked to memorize a list of 30 words. At first, this seems like a challenging task. Then you remember that you can hold more word in short-term storage if you

• expand the capacity of you sensory storage

• recall the words list an hour after you finish the experiment

• group words together in meaningful ways

• avoid using attention processes for working memory