Module 2.4 Quiz

Meloni’s boss gave her the phone number, including the area code, of a client she needed to call. As Meloni goes to enter the number into the contacts list on her phone, she finds that she cannot remember all the numbers in the right order. Which of the following is the best explanation for this failure?

• Being 10 digits long, the number is beyond Miller’s working memory capacity.

• Meloni lacks echoic memory.

• Because the number was so short, Meloni did not pay enough attention to it.

• Meloni’s iconic memory disrupted her encoding of the number.

Which of the following is most likely to be encoded automatically?

• The side-angle-side geometry theorem

• The names of the last 10 presidents of the United States

• What you ate for breakfast this morning

• The license plate of your new car

Which of the following is most likely to lead to semantic encoding of a list of words?

• Thinking about how the words relate to your own life

• Practicing the words for a single extended period

• Breaking up the practice into several relatively short sessions

• Focusing on the number of vowels and consonants in the words

Based on the information provided in the graph, what were the researchers most interested in testing?

• The impact of chunking on learning

• The impact of the testing effect on learning

• The impact of the method of loci on learning

• The impact of hierarchies on learning

Which of the following statements is most accurate?

• The researchers used experimental procedures in this study.

• The researchers effectively applied random selection in this study.

• The researchers minimized sampling bias in this study.

• The researchers used quantitative methods in this study.

Dr. Tamir conducted a study on echoic memory with a sample of college students, finding that the mean length of echoic memory was 3.47 seconds. Which of the following statements accurately interprets this value?

• The most frequent length of time for which the college students remembered visual information was 3.47 seconds.

• The most frequent length of time for which the college students remembered auditory information was 3.47 seconds.

• The average length of time for which the college students remembered visual information was 3.47 seconds.

• The average length of time for which the college students remembered auditory information was 3.47 seconds.