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A property of control processes in the modal model of memory is that they

A) do not require attention.
B) may differ from one task to another.
C) are performed without conscious awareness.
D) are difficult to modify.

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Explain Stokes's concept of activity-silent working memory. Describe what brain scans would look like in a task of gathering and then remembering information.

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Peterson and Peterson studied how well participants can remember groups of three letters (like BRT, QSD) after various delays. They found that participants remembered an average of 80 percent of the groups after 3 seconds but only 10 percent after 18 seconds. They hypothesized that this decrease in performance was due to ___________, but later research showed that it was actually due to ___________.

Before going to the grocery store, Jamal quickly made a list in his head of the few items he needed to cook dinner. Driving to the store, he repeated the list over and over to himself so that he wouldn't forget anything. How would Broadbent describe Jamal's actions in the car?

Digit span is one measure of capacity of

Remembering that a tomato is a fruit rather than a vegetable is an example of ___________ memory.

A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look away, and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying

A person with a reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with ___________ memory.

Robin lost the softball game for her team when she ran toward home and was thrown out at the plate. The coach asked her, "Why did you run? You knew it was a risky move." Robin replied, "But I heard you yell, 'Go! Go!'" The coach replied, "I was saying, 'No! No!'" Robin's ill-fated run was the result of a ________ error.

Chantal has frontal lobe damage. She is doing a problem-solving task in which she has to choose the red object out of many choices. She can easily complete this repeatedly, but when the experimenter asks her to choose the blue object on a new trial of the task, she continues to choose the red one, even when the experimenter gives her feedback that she is incorrect. Chantal is displaying

The ability to manipulate information in memory temporarily while remembering something else is called

Which of the following represents the correct progression of information as it moves through the primary memory stores?

It is easier to perform two tasks at the same time if

When light from a flashlight is moved quickly back and forth on a wall in a darkened room, it can appear to observers that there is a trail of light moving across the wall, even though physically the light is only in one place at any given time. This experience is an effect of memory that occurs because of

One function of ___________ is to pull information out of long-term memory.

Sperling's delayed partial report procedure provided evidence that

Observations that people may actually process and manipulate information rather than simply store it for brief periods of time challenged the conceptualization of

Which of the following terms does NOT reflect the concept of control processes?

Models designed to explain mental functioning are constantly refined and modified to explain new results. Which of the following exemplifies this concept based on the results presented in your text?

Which of the following statements about short-term memory is FALSE?