WorksheetsChapter 10: sensory and working memory
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Some research suggests that there might be individual cells in the cortex that respond to the presence of a particular face or other complex object. These cells have been called
complex cells
hypercomplex cells
grandmother cells
concept cells
The claim that perception is a constructive process means that perception
is based on our expectations as well as sensory data
takes into account multiple elements
starts with simple elements and combines them to form complex objects
builds on past experience
The strongest evidence for the existence of separate short-term and long-term memory stores has come from research on
attention
depth of processing
consolidation
amnesia
In anterograde amnesia, patients
cannot remember anything that happened to them before their injury
have particular difficulty remembering events that occurred shortly before they were injured
have difficulty forming STMs
have difficulty forming LTMs
Shiffrin and Schneider assumed that words are represented in the brain by a set of neurons in the cortex that are activated whenever the word is presented. They called this set of neurons
code
neural cluster
node
record
In Shiffrin and Schneider’s model of memory, the short-term store was viewed as
a temporary storage area where material was held before being transferred to the long-term store
a subset of the long-term store of items consisting of the items that are currently active
a specialized store for holding verbal material
a specialized store for holding auditory material
According to Shiffrin and Schneider,
STM holds material before it is transferred to LTM
STM and LTM reside in different areas of the brain
STM consists of those items in LTM that are currently in an active state
which node is activated by a word depends on the context in which it is presented
Working memory is another way to conceptualize…
Sensory memory
Short term memory
Long term memory
The modal model
In Baddeley and Hitch’s model of working memory, the component that holds speech-based material is called the
auditory loop
phonological loop
auditory store
phonological store
Which of the following seems to be the most important in
determining our memory span for words?
the meaning of the words
the number of letters
the number of syllables
the time required to pronounce them
According to Baddeley and Hitch, the phonological loop can hold
5 words
7 words
2 seconds of speech
7 seconds of speech
The memory span for words depends on how long it takes to pronounce the words. This is called
the word-length effect
the spacing effect
the pronunciation effect
the chunking effect
The size of children’s phonological loop has been found to predict
intelligence
ADHD
reading problems
autism
Alzheimer’s disease affects the operation of
the phonological loop
the visuo-spatial sketchpad
the central executive
none of the above
The picture-superiority effect refers to the fact that we remember
photographs better than drawings
pictures better than words
pictures better than sounds
drawings better than photographs
If someone is injured in a car crash and then cannot remember their name or anything about their past life, they are probably suffering from
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
retroactive interference
post-traumatic stress disorder
The formation of a memory trace requires time, and that processing may continue for some time after an event has occurred. The process involved is called
consolidation
chunking
potentiation
rehearsal
Processing of sensory input that is based on existing knowledge and expectations is called bottom-up processing
true
false
The store in which sensory data is held after its transfer to short-term memory, is called sensory memory.
true
false
