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6. How is information from the short term memory transferred to the long term memory, according to the multi-store model of memory?

  • Retrieval
  • Rehearsal
  • Repetition
  • Repression

7. A serial position curve shows primacy, recency, and which other type of information?

  • Acoustics
  • Unimportant information
  • Asymptotes
  • Semantics

8. If procedural knowledge is "knowing how", what is "knowing what"?

  • Procedural knowledge
  • Semantic knowledge
  • Declarative knowledge
  • Episodic knowledge

9. Who used the whole report and partial report techniques to provide evidence for sensory memory?

  • Valentine
  • Baddeley
  • Sperling
  • Shiffrin

10. Which of the following is a part of the working memory model of memory?

  • Visuo-semantic sketchpad
  • Visuo-sensory sketchpad
  • Articulatory-phonological loop
  • Auditory-phonological loop

11. Which of these is not a valid criticism of the multi-store model of memory?

  • Amnesiacs with Korsakoffs Syndrome show functional short term memory but impaired long term memory
  • Ruchkin et al found that we semantic information from the long term memory is used in tasks which we would expect to only require the acoustic information in the short term memory
  • Flashbulb memories show that information can be imprinted directly into the long-term memory
  • Things are often remembered better when processed semantically rather than simple repetition

12. Tulving (1972) suggested semantic memory, and which other type of long term memory?

  • Episodic memory
  • Acoustic memory
  • Declarative memory
  • Procedural memory

13. What do Alzheimer's patients appear to have low levels of, causing weakened long-term memory?

  • Acetylcholine
  • Serotonin
  • Trimethyline
  • Darifencanin

14. What is the capacity of short term memory?

  • 7 plus or minus 2 units
  • 5 plus or minus 1 unit
  • 9 plus or minus 4 units
  • 3 plus or minus 2 units

15. Which of these is not a sensory memory store?

  • Tactile store
  • Iconic store
  • Echoic store
  • Haptic store