Chapter 5: Short-Term and Working Memory

Question 1

The process involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present.

Answer 1

Memory

Question 2

When is memory active?

Answer 2

Any time past experience has an effect on the way you think.

Question 3

Which researchers are responsible for the modal model of memory?

Answer 3

Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)

Question 4

Name the structural features of the modal model of memory

Answer 4

Sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

Question 5

According to the MMM, what is sensory memory?

Answer 5

An initial stage that holds all incoming information for seconds or a fraction of a second

Question 6

According to the MMM, what is short-term memory?

Answer 6

After sensory memory, holds 5-7 items for about 15-20 seconds

Question 7

According to the MMM, what is long-term memory?

Answer 7

After STM, can hold a large amount of information for years or decades

Question 8

MMM: Dynamic processes associated with the structural features that can be controlled by the person and may differ from one task to another

Answer 8

Control processes

Question 9

Repeating a stimulus over and over

Answer 9

Rehearsal

Question 10

Storing something in LTM

Answer 10

Encoding

Question 11

Remembering info stored in LTM

Answer 11

Retrieval

Question 12

Retention, for brief periods of time, of the effects of sensory stimulation

Answer 12

Sensory memory

Question 13

The continued perception of a visual stimulus even after it’s no longer present

Answer 13

Persistence of vision

Question 14

How does the persistence of vision help us see movies?

Answer 14

A person viewing a film doesn’t see the dark intervals between the frames