Exam 12: Short-Term Memory and Working Memory

Animal studies support the finding that the prefrontal cortex is important for some components of working memory including _______.

The prefrontal cortex can access long-term memories that can be integrated into a working memory task.

Monkeys with ________ lesions show impairment on self-ordering tasks where they were responsible for monitoring the order of presentation of a set of items.

Amnesic people show an impairment for the ________ effect but an intact ________ effect.

Chunks of information in short-term memory do not get stored as the same chunks in long-term memory.

Our subvocal speech is part of the ___________.

When performing a visual tracking task, the _________ helps us keep information in our heads while we work on it.

When you remember your nine-digit student number as three groups of three numbers you have ______ the items together.

Describe the components of working memory according to Baddeley (2000) and how they work together.

In one study by Dias and colleagues (1996) animals learned to discriminate between compound stimuli of polygons and lines, by attending to one and ignoring the other. This was followed by a change in the discrimination task requirements. This shift is known as ______.

During the Wisconsin card sorting task, an individual kept using the same rule even after it changed. This error is called _________.

The release from proactive inhibition demonstrates an interaction between long-term and short-term memory.

Researchers found that prefrontal cells respond to ________ while the inferotemporal cortex responds to _________.

Neurological evidence suggests that medial and orbital areas serve a different role in working memory in the rat compared to the primate.

Compared to normals, amnesics show impaired long-term memory storage for a serial list task but their short-term memory tends to remain intact.

The Brown-Peterson test has been used to test the rate of _______ when rehearsal is prevented.

Frontal patients tend to have problems performing on the Wisconsin card sorting task because they fail to perseverate.

The verbal comprehension area is in the __________ lobe and the articulatory rehearsal process is in the ________ lobe.

A serial probe recognition task is used so researchers can compare long-term memory performance across many species.

Performing a finger tapping task while completing a verbal memory task impaired subject performance for the verbal memory task.