PSY 316 QUIZ 3 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
The ability remember a telephone by a 3-3-4 grouping of the digits or a social security
number by a 3-2-4 grouping of the digits is an example of ___. - Answer- chunking
In the Brown-Peterson experiment, people were presented with a trigram (MHA), asked
to count backwards from a number, and were told to report the trigram after a certain
period of time. They were 5% accurate when they had to recall the trigram after 18
seconds. Forgetting the trigram due to the fading of time would be best described as
___. - Answer- decay (?)
According to Cowan (2010), we are able to maintain between ___ and ___ items in our
short-term memory without chunking items. - Answer- 3; 5
The loss of information from memory due to the passage of time. - Answer- Decay
What subcomponent of the phonological loop actively rehearses information so that the
verbal information is held in working memory? This subcomponent is often referred to
as the "inner voice" because a person must say the information multiple times to herself
or himself. - Answer- articulatory loop
A _____ is an active, strategic learning device or method. - Answer- mnemonic device
_____ is the inability to remember early life events and very poor memory for your life at
a very young age. - Answer- Infantile amnesia
In a classic study, Godden and Baddeley (1975) had people learn a list of words. Half of
these people learned the list on land, and the other learned the list underwater (all of
these people were scuba divers). What were they investigating? - Answer- Encoding
Specificity
Which of these effects finds that memory is better for information that you relate to
yourself in some way? - Answer- Self-reference effect
Kepple and Underwood propose that forgetting in short term memory is caused by a
certain type of interference called: - Answer- proactive interference
ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
The ability remember a telephone by a 3-3-4 grouping of the digits or a social security
number by a 3-2-4 grouping of the digits is an example of ___. - Answer- chunking
In the Brown-Peterson experiment, people were presented with a trigram (MHA), asked
to count backwards from a number, and were told to report the trigram after a certain
period of time. They were 5% accurate when they had to recall the trigram after 18
seconds. Forgetting the trigram due to the fading of time would be best described as
___. - Answer- decay (?)
According to Cowan (2010), we are able to maintain between ___ and ___ items in our
short-term memory without chunking items. - Answer- 3; 5
The loss of information from memory due to the passage of time. - Answer- Decay
What subcomponent of the phonological loop actively rehearses information so that the
verbal information is held in working memory? This subcomponent is often referred to
as the "inner voice" because a person must say the information multiple times to herself
or himself. - Answer- articulatory loop
A _____ is an active, strategic learning device or method. - Answer- mnemonic device
_____ is the inability to remember early life events and very poor memory for your life at
a very young age. - Answer- Infantile amnesia
In a classic study, Godden and Baddeley (1975) had people learn a list of words. Half of
these people learned the list on land, and the other learned the list underwater (all of
these people were scuba divers). What were they investigating? - Answer- Encoding
Specificity
Which of these effects finds that memory is better for information that you relate to
yourself in some way? - Answer- Self-reference effect
Kepple and Underwood propose that forgetting in short term memory is caused by a
certain type of interference called: - Answer- proactive interference
