Question 1

What is the Brown-Peterson task? What does it tell us about short-term memory?

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Question 2

How do the primacy and recency effects provide evidence for two separate memory stores?

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The primacy effect appears to be due to ...

Question 3

The suffix effect relates to which type of memory?

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A)  iconic
B)  echoic
C)  short term
D)  working

Question 4

In the absence of rehearsal,short-term memory tends to ______.

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A)  last about 20 seconds
B)  last about 8 seconds
C)  decay slowly over 24 hours
D)  decay slowly over a week

Question 5

The string of letters OMGTTYLLOL would usually exceed our short-term memory capacity.If we break it into three smaller units of OMG,TTYL,and LOL,though,we can more easily handle all of the same information.This is referred to as ______.

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A)  buffering
B)  chunking
C)  retaining
D)  tracing

Question 6

The main distinction between "short-term memory" and "working memory" hinges on ______.

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A)  the kind of storage (short vs.longer term) 
B)  the emphasis on static structure vs.active processing
C)  the capacity (limited to 7+2 items vs.unlimited) 
D)  the type of forgetting (decay vs.interference)

Question 7

Sternberg's classic work on searching for information from short-term memory indicated that the search process is ______.

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A)  serial
B)  self-terminating
C)  exhaustive
D)  both serial and exhaustive

Question 8

Sensory memories exist for every sensory modality.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The central executive in working memory is hypothesized to have the function of ______.

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A)  directing the flow of information
B)  controlling an unlimited amount of resources and capacity
C)  carrying out subvocal rehearsal to maintain verbal material in memory
D)  maintaining visual material in memory through visualization

Question 10

Which of the following would be a good example of a successful self-terminating search?

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A)  You are trying to track down all embarrassing family photos of yourself before your significant other comes for dinner and double check every photo just to be sure.
B)  You have a leaky pipe and find it under the faucet,but you still check all other pipes in the house to be sure no others are leaking.
C)  You are trying to locate your wallet,but after searching your entire house,you fail to find it.
D)  You have been searching for your cell phone,and once you find it,you no longer continue searching other parts of the house.

Question 11

Retrieval involves ______.

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A)  the activation of the senses
B)  the translation of information into a form that can be stored
C)  the storage of information over time
D)  the calling to mind of previously stored information

Question 12

Damage to the hippocampus would most likely result in ______.

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A)  blindness
B)  loss of the ability to form new memories
C)  deafness
D)  loss of balance

Question 13

Our sensory memory for visual information is called iconic memory.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Information is stored in iconic memory for ______.

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A)  less than 1 second
B)  5-10 seconds
C)  about 20 seconds
D)  up to 1 year

Question 15

The results of the Brown-Peterson short-term memory task can be explained by ______.

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A)  decay
B)  interference
C)  both decay and interference
D)  neither decay nor interference

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The suffix effect relates to which type of memory?

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The central executive in working memory is hypothesized to have the function of ______.

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Damage to the hippocampus would most likely result in ______.

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