Psychology Quiz: Memory Systems

To answer a question, you recover a stored fact and hold it in mind while speaking. This sequence uses:

Instant sentence repetition survives hippocampal damage; remembering the story does not. The repetition relies on:

Free recall: last words best if immediate; first words best if delayed. This pattern is best explained by:

A loud noise interrupts a man's silent rehearsal of a phone number, and the number is lost. This shows working memory's:

Repeating a password mentally until use, versus linking it to a personal date to remember it later, compares:

Which of the following functions is most characteristic of the central executive component of working memory, distinguishing it from the other slave systems?

A student trying to learn new vocabulary words finds that they are more successful when they create sentences using the words rather than simply reading the definitions over and over. This is because creating sentences is a form of elaborative rehearsal that engages working memory to:

Participants in an experiment are briefly shown the word 'CHAIR' on a screen. Later, they are faster at identifying 'TABLE' as a real word compared to participants who were initially shown an unrelated word like 'CLOUD'. This facilitation effect, which can occur even without conscious recollection of seeing 'CHAIR', is an example of priming, a phenomenon associated with:

A person is asked to mentally count the number of windows in their childhood home. This task requires retrieving a spatial layout from long-term memory and then systematically scanning it. According to Baddeley's model, this process primarily relies on the visuospatial sketchpad for the mental imagery and which other component for keeping a running tally of the counted windows?

An experienced chef can chop vegetables at high speed while simultaneously monitoring multiple pans on the stove and conversing with a colleague. The chef's ability to perform the physical act of chopping with minimal conscious attention is best explained by the consolidation of the skill into:

Two friends are discussing their knowledge of the American Civil War. Alex can list the major battles, dates, and key generals. Chris, however, can vividly recall a specific visit to the Gettysburg battlefield, remembering the emotional impact of the tour and the weather on that day. Which statement best distinguishes the primary type of long-term memory each friend is using?

In a classic memory experiment, participants are presented with a list of words and then asked for recall. If a 30-second distractor task (like counting backwards) is introduced between the end of the list and the recall period, the recency effect disappears. This finding suggests that the distractor task interferes with information held in which memory system?

An architect is designing a house. She mentally visualizes the 3D layout of the rooms, retrieves the client's verbal request for 'an open-concept kitchen,' and integrates this with her factual knowledge of building codes from long-term memory to form a coherent, multi-modal representation of the plan. In Baddeley's model, the component responsible for binding these different types of information into a unified whole is the:

To solve the mental arithmetic problem (4 x 13) - 7, a person must hold the intermediate product (52) in mind while performing the final subtraction. This act of temporarily holding and manipulating information is a core function of:

A person who had a frightening experience with a dog as a child now feels a surge of anxiety whenever they hear a dog bark, even if they are not consciously recalling the specific childhood event. This automatically triggered emotional response is a form of:

A student trying to learn new vocabulary words finds that they are more successful when they create sentences using the words rather than simply reading the definitions over and over. This is because creating sentences is a form of elaborative rehearsal that engages working memory to:

A patient diagnosed with semantic dementia shows a progressive loss of factual knowledge, such as the names of famous people or the functions of common objects. However, she can still vividly recall her wedding day from 40 years ago. This pattern suggests a significant degradation of her semantic memory with a relative preservation of her:

A research participant is asked to remember the letters 'F, K, L, R, S, T' over a short delay. During the delay, the participant is instructed to repeat the syllable 'la' over and over again out loud. This technique, known as articulatory suppression, is expected to impair recall by primarily disrupting the operation of the:

An eyewitness is asked to describe a suspect's face. The witness must retrieve a visual representation from long-term memory and then translate that mental image into a sequence of verbal statements. This translation process most critically involves the coordinated action of which two working memory components?

A patient with severe anterograde amnesia following a brain injury shows marked improvement over several days on a mirror-drawing task. However, each day the patient claims to have never seen the task before and expresses surprise at their own ability to perform it. This specific pattern of spared and impaired abilities most clearly demonstrates a dissociation between which two memory systems?