Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Limited capacity of about seven items

Juan always studied alone in the college library. He was surprised when he had a hard time recalling several pieces of information during his final exam, which he took in a large gymnasium with some hundred other students. One explanation for his forgetting information that he had studied could be:

a. the context effect

b. the misinformation effect

c. the primacy effect

d. source confusion

Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Approximately 20 seconds

Indicate which of the following schedules of reinforcement is being used for the example below: variable-interval (VI); fixed-interval (FI); variable-ratio (VR); fixed-ratio (FR).

Miguel works 40 hours a week in an office and gets paid every Friday afternoon.

Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Storage of information for later retrieval

Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Potentially permanent

Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Large but fleeting capacity

Select the name of the associated person from the description below:

Eric Kandel, George Sperling, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Richard F. Thompson, Elizabeth Loftus, Karl Lashley.

The psychologist who identified the duration of visual sensory memory

Select the name of the associated person from the description below:

Eric Kandel, George Sperling, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Richard F. Thompson, Elizabeth Loftus, Karl Lashley.

One of the most widely known experts on memory distortions, eyewitness testimony, and false memories

Identify the drug class of the drug described below and give an example (or examples).

Addictive drugs that increase brain activity and mental alertness

Indicate which of the following schedules of reinforcement is being used for the example below: variable-interval (VI); fixed-interval (FI); variable-ratio (VR); fixed-ratio (FR).

At the start of the semester, your instructor announces that there will be a test every two weeks.

Identify the strategy used in the example below. Choose from: trial and error, algorithm, heuristic, insight, representativeness heuristic, availability heuristic, and single-feature model.

Professor Goldstein tries each key on the key chain one by one until she finds the one that opens the locked filing cabinet.

Why is it hard to determine the accuracy of a “memory” that is recovered in therapy?

Identify the process involved (classical conditioning, operant conditioning, latent learning, instinctive drift, observational learning) and the psychologist(s) associated with it for the situation described below:

One of Jordan’s first jobs as an animal trainer was to train a pig to get a coin and deposit it in a piggy bank. Through shaping and reinforcement with food, Jordan had several initial successes, but soon the pig was more interested in pushing the coin along the ground with its snout than in putting it in the bank.