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Psych Exam 2: Chapter 7 (Memory) Test

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5 Matching Questions

  1. Short-term memory
  2. Central executive system
  3. Semantic network
  4. Visuospatial sketchpad
  5. Attention
  1. a 2nd component in working memory; permits people to temporarily hold and manipulate visual images
  2. b Limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed info for about 10-20 seconds
  3. c Consists of nodes representing concepts, joined together by pathways that link related concepts
  4. d Focusing awareness on narrowed range of stimuli or events
  5. e 3rd component in working memory; controls deployment of attention, switching focus of attention and dividing attention as needed

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Temporary inability to remember something you know, accompanied by a feeling that it's just out of reach
  2. group of familiar stimuli stored as single unit
  3. Assume that cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected compuational networks that resembele neural networks
  4. Emphasizes what word sounds like
  5. Maintaining encoded info in memory over time

5 True/False Questions

  1. Episodic bufferForming a memory code (how something looks/sounds/means)

          

  2. Long-term memoryUnlimited cpacity store that can hold info over lengthy periods of time

          

  3. Levels-of-processing theoryMemory is enhanced by forming semantic and visual codes, since either can lead to recall

          

  4. Phonological loopEmphasizes what word sounds like

          

  5. ElaborationLinking stimulus to other info at at time of encoding