Exam 5: Short-Term Working Memory

Under what circumstances do people with smaller working memory spans outperform people with larger working memory spans?

Which is NOT true?

The cost to memory because of more recently encountered information is called __________.

Which of the following is NOT affected by working memory span size?

DLPFC is __________.(Choose the best answer.)

Donders' method of subtraction __________.

People will remember less from a list of words that sound similar than a list of words that sound different.

The episodic buffer of working memory __________.

On a working memory span test,people are asked to _________ some items,while ___________ others.

In a dual-task procedure,Logie had participants do mental addition or an imaging task as one task and a letter span or visual span task as the other task.The results __________.

More recently,memory researchers such as Cowan have taken the view that the capacity of short-term memory is more like __________ units of information.

Retroactive interference is __________.

In recall performance,the elevated recall of the first few items in a list (presumably because the items have the greatest chance of being transferred to LTM)is referred to as the __________.

"Seven plus or minus two" is NOT associated with __________.

Describe the procedure used in the Sternberg search paradigm,the standard findings,and the standard interpretation of the theoretical implications of those findings.

Which of the following effect s is NOT a hallmark of the visuospatial sketchpad?

Newer information interferes with older information in __________.

Poorer memory for an item because of memories of more recent items is called __________.

Which refers to a completely different thing than short-term memory?

The initial "Peterson & Peterson" interpretation of the Brown-Peterson task result was that the performance decrement was due to memory decay across time.This interpretation was later challenged by __________.