WorksheetsCh. 7 Memory Theorists
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This nineteenth-century scholar invented nonsense syllables and showed that forgetting often occurs very rapidly.
a)
Elizabeth Loftus
b)
Philip Zimbardo
c)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
d)
William Dement
2.
This expert on short-term memory is famous for a paper titled “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two.”
a)
Endel Tulving
b)
George Miller
c)
Elizabeth Loftus
d)
George Sperling
3.
These researchers developed an influential information-processing model of memory that described three memory stores: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
a)
Atkinson & Shiffrin
b)
Craik & Lockhart
c)
Tulving & Loftus
d)
Kandel & Johnson
4.
According to this theorist declarative memory should be subdivided into episodic memory and semantic memory.
a)
William Dement
b)
Marcia Johnson
c)
George Milner
d)
Endel Tulving
5.
This researcher developed a four-component model of working memory.
a)
Fergus Craik
b)
Alan Baddeley
c)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
d)
Robert Lockhart
6.
These researchers devised levels-of-processing theory, which proposes that deeper levels of processing result in longer-lasting memories.
a)
Illig & Naparstek
b)
Tulving & Locke
c)
Craik & Lockhart
d)
Dement & Freud
7.
This researcher described the misinformation effect and conducted extensive research on repressed memories.
a)
Sigmund Freud
b)
Marcia Johnson
c)
Eric Kandel
d)
Elizabeth Loftus
8.
This researcher described the process of source monitoring and the significance of source-monitoring errors.
a)
Marcia Johnson
b)
Elizabeth Shachter
c)
Endel Tulving
d)
Craig Harris
9.
Working with sea slugs, this researcher won a Nobel prize for demonstrating that alterations in synaptic transmission contribute to memory formation.
a)
William Dement
b)
Eric Kandel
c)
Endel Tulving
d)
Roger Sperry
10.
Which researcher conducted a classic experiment that demonstrated the brief duration of information in sensory memory?
a)
Richard Atkinson
b)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
c)
George Miller
d)
George Sperling
11.
The first person to conduct scientific studies of forgetting was:
a)
Sigmund Freud
b)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
c)
John Watson
d)
George Miller
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