Cog Psych Chapter 6 practice questions
correctly answered to pass
When conducting research experiments perform a digit span task to test what? - correct answer
✔✔An individuals working memory capacity
Clive Wearing is an example of an amnesia patient who suffered amnesia after a brain infection.
He can remember his wife, but not events from his childhood. What type of memory was
damaged and what type of memory remains intact for this patient? - correct answer ✔✔explicit
memory was damaged, implicit memory remains intact
What are the three key elements of memory? - correct answer ✔✔Acquisition/ encoding,
storage, and retrieval
The modal model establishes three key places memory travels to what are they? - correct
answer ✔✔Sensory Memory, short term memory, and long term memory
What and why was the term short term memory replaced with? - correct answer ✔✔Modern
scholars call it working memory, because t is not a storage space but it is the memories that a
person is actively engaging with
What are 4 key differences between working memory and long term memory? - correct answer
✔✔Working memory is: fragile/temporary, limited, ease of entry, and easy to retrieve, long
term memory is exactly the opposite.
When updating the modal model in 1960, researcher Sperling conducted an experiment where
he would show participants letters for a brief amount of time, and they were only able to recall
4 or 5. In follow up studies he placed the letters into rows and told participants to only recall
one row. What does this experiment indicate about memory? - correct answer ✔✔Sperling
correctly answered to pass
When conducting research experiments perform a digit span task to test what? - correct answer
✔✔An individuals working memory capacity
Clive Wearing is an example of an amnesia patient who suffered amnesia after a brain infection.
He can remember his wife, but not events from his childhood. What type of memory was
damaged and what type of memory remains intact for this patient? - correct answer ✔✔explicit
memory was damaged, implicit memory remains intact
What are the three key elements of memory? - correct answer ✔✔Acquisition/ encoding,
storage, and retrieval
The modal model establishes three key places memory travels to what are they? - correct
answer ✔✔Sensory Memory, short term memory, and long term memory
What and why was the term short term memory replaced with? - correct answer ✔✔Modern
scholars call it working memory, because t is not a storage space but it is the memories that a
person is actively engaging with
What are 4 key differences between working memory and long term memory? - correct answer
✔✔Working memory is: fragile/temporary, limited, ease of entry, and easy to retrieve, long
term memory is exactly the opposite.
When updating the modal model in 1960, researcher Sperling conducted an experiment where
he would show participants letters for a brief amount of time, and they were only able to recall
4 or 5. In follow up studies he placed the letters into rows and told participants to only recall
one row. What does this experiment indicate about memory? - correct answer ✔✔Sperling
