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6. only unavailable, not inaccessible, items are said to be forgotten - true or false?

  • true
  • false, both are said to be forgotten
  • false, neither are said to be forgotten

7. what does the visual change detection task suggest?

  • people have a capacity for 2-3 seconds worth of auditory content
  • people can remember 3/4 abstract items
  • iconic memory is rich, with an unknown capacity
  • recently heard sounds retain auditory qualities

8. the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm provides support for which model of semantic memory?

  • the spreading activation network model
  • the hierarchical network model
  • the Hub-and-Spoke model

9. what is an error of commission?

  • when a memory is present but incorrect or unwanted
  • failure to bring information to mind

10. what is the relationship between forgetting and time?

  • negative
  • positive
  • logarithmic
  • no relationship

11. which study is credited with the discovery that iconic memory is rich (3x4 rows of letters)?

  • Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)
  • Sperling (1960)
  • Baddeley & Hitch (1974)
  • Crowder (1972)

12. According to Whitten & Leonard (1981), it is easier to recall if you...

  • start with most recent memories and move backwards
  • start with oldest memories and move forwards in time

13. which of these was not spared in HM?

  • immediate memory
  • sensory functions
  • intelligence
  • declarative long term memory
  • procedural memory

14. which model best explains why the irrelevant speech effect occurs?

  • the embedded processes model
  • the multi store model
  • the working memory model

15. which theory/model suggests that complete hippocampal damage will result in complete retrograde amnesia?

  • hub-and-spoke model
  • multiple trace theory
  • standard consolidation model
  • embedded processes model

16. which learning technique prompts learners to generate an explanation for an explicitly stated fact?

  • elaborative interrogation
  • interleaving
  • retrieval practise
  • spaced practise

17. research has indicated that amnesia patients struggle with recollection, but not familiarity - true or false?

  • false, they struggle with neither
  • true
  • false, they struggle with both

18. awareness of a prior encounter without recovery of contextual details is called...

  • familiarity (know)
  • recognition (remember)

19. which of these is not a short-coming of the working memory model?

  • questionable neural plausibility
  • cannot explain multi-tasking
  • it is difficult to explain communication between components in detail

20. patients with impaired semantic memory have lesions in...

  • occipital lobe
  • parietal lobe
  • anterior frontal lobe
  • medial temporal lobe