MMS AND WMM

Cognitive psychologists cannot observe mental processes, but they can assume mental processes from human behaviour.

• True

• False

Cognitive psychologists use case studies, laboratory experiments, observations and interviews to investigate mental processes.

• True

• False

The multi-store model (MSM) that was first proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) suggests information flows through three stores:

• Sensory, Short-term and long-term

• Info processing and retrieval

• Semantic, remembering and procedural

• Sensory, processing and semantic

Glanzer and Cunitz (1966) established the serial position effect using free recall experiments. The results:

• Supported Theory of Planned Behavior

• Multi-store memory model

• Confirmation bias

• It failed to support multi-store memory model

Which statement best sums up an evaluation of the MSM?

• It's an accurate representation of comprehensive memory

• It only applies to americans

• Support by research evidence but is too simplistic and does not explain how stores interact with each other

• It is too complex

The Clive Wearing case (the man that has retrograde and anterograde amnesia) shows that

• The existence of different memory stores

• Theory of planned behavior

• Confirmation bias

• Does not support different memory stores

What is the key difference between Miller's (1956) and Cowan's (2010) research on STM capacity?

• Cowan did not let the participants know the length of the list before he read it to them.

• Cowan made use of fMRIs to watch how many pieces of data were put into memory.

• Cowan found that STM capacity was greater than Miller predicted.

• Cowan gave explicit directions not to chunk the data.

The part of Baddeley & Hitch's Working Memory Model that processes auditory stimuli is called

• . The central executive

•  The phonological loop

• The visuospatial sketchpad

• The episodic buffer

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

Which of the following is not a function of the central executive?

• It consolidates memory in short-term memory and moves it to long-term memory.

• Shifting attention from one task to another.

• Binding information from a number of sources into coherent "episodes".

• Oversees the visual and auditory STM stores