Ch. 4: Athabasca PSYC 355 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
working memory - CORRECT ANSWER The brief, immediate memory for material that is
currently being processed.
short-term memory - CORRECT ANSWER The kind of memory that contains only the small
amount of information that a person is actively using. (The preferred term is working memory)
long-term memory - CORRECT ANSWER The large-capacity memory that contains one's memory
for experiences and information that has accumulated over a lifetime.
chunk - CORRECT ANSWER The basic unit of short-term memory, consisting of several
components that are strongly associated with one another.
Brown/Peterson &Peterson technique - CORRECT ANSWER A technique where researchers
present several items to a participant, who is instructed to remember these items. Next the participant
performs a distracting task and then attempts to recall the original items.
rehearsal - CORRECT ANSWER The repetition of information to be learned; memory technique.
serial position effect - CORRECT ANSWER The U-shaped relationships between a word's position
in a list and its probability of recall.
recency effect - CORRECT ANSWER In a serial-position curve, the enhanced accuracy for the
final items in a series of stimuli, which presumably occurs because the items are still in working memory.
primacy effect - CORRECT ANSWER The tendency to show greater memory for information that
comes first in a sequence.
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
working memory - CORRECT ANSWER The brief, immediate memory for material that is
currently being processed.
short-term memory - CORRECT ANSWER The kind of memory that contains only the small
amount of information that a person is actively using. (The preferred term is working memory)
long-term memory - CORRECT ANSWER The large-capacity memory that contains one's memory
for experiences and information that has accumulated over a lifetime.
chunk - CORRECT ANSWER The basic unit of short-term memory, consisting of several
components that are strongly associated with one another.
Brown/Peterson &Peterson technique - CORRECT ANSWER A technique where researchers
present several items to a participant, who is instructed to remember these items. Next the participant
performs a distracting task and then attempts to recall the original items.
rehearsal - CORRECT ANSWER The repetition of information to be learned; memory technique.
serial position effect - CORRECT ANSWER The U-shaped relationships between a word's position
in a list and its probability of recall.
recency effect - CORRECT ANSWER In a serial-position curve, the enhanced accuracy for the
final items in a series of stimuli, which presumably occurs because the items are still in working memory.
primacy effect - CORRECT ANSWER The tendency to show greater memory for information that
comes first in a sequence.
