Cognitive Psychology Questions
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Which of the following are systems of memory storage in the Atkinson-Shriffin model?
Sam has to remember a series of numbers that he generates for his computer password. He decides to use the birth years of his three sisters (198819892001). Sam's strategy is called
Sandy has a lot of general knowledge, not tied to a particular time or place, about international affairs. This is an example of memory.
Which of the following represents the portion of original learning that appears destined to be with a person virtually forever, even without rehearsal?
Which of the following is a relatively permanent type of memory that stores huge amounts of information?
The is specialized to briefly store speech-based information about the sounds of language.
______ works by "packaging" large amounts of information together so it can be remembered as single units, making it more manageable.
Short-term memory is usually only retained for as long as ______ seconds.
The type of visual memory that allows us to "write" in the air with a July 4th sparkler is visual memory.
True or false: According to Baddeley's conceptualization of working memory, there are three components: the phonological loop, visuo-spatial working memory, and the central executive.
Which theorist proposed that the visuo-spatial sketchpad stores imagery and spatial information on a sort of scratch pad?
You are driving down the highway and see a billboard with a phone number on it. You tell yourself to remember it, but as you drive a little farther you find you've forgotten it. This describes the limitations of ______ memory.
The term used to describe auditory sensory memory, which is retained for up to several seconds, is ______ memory.
______ is a limited-capacity memory system in which information is usually retained for less than a minute unless strategies are used to retain it longer.
Your cell phone rings, but you don't have any paper or pencil to write the number someone is giving you down so you repeat the number until you are able to write it down. This is an example of
Which level of memory has a time frame of a fraction of a second up to several seconds?
Baddeley proposed the concept of memory as an alternate conceptualization of short-term memory.
A visual sensory memory which is retained only for about 1/4 of a second is called an
Sensory memory is the ______ and shortest stage of the three stages of memory.
According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin theory, the three separate memory systems are