Memory components and forgetting (chapter 10)

A basketball player is very nervous about her upcoming game and to try to calm her nerves is visualizing her previous game where she scored many points. What system of long-term memory is being accessed?

a) Central executive

b) Procedural

c) Episodic

d) Semantic

c) Episodic

In addition to Baddeley's three subsystems of working memory, researchers believe that there may be a fourth subsystem called the motor store.

a) True

b) False

a) True

An organization process that results in increasing the size of working memory and involves combining smaller units of information to make larger ones is an activity commonly called ________.

chunking

Which of the following describes why verbal labels and visual metaphoric imagery aid the learning of complex motor skills? They:

a) Change an abstract array of movements to a more meaningful form

b) Reduce the complexity of the skill that needs to be performed

c) Direct the performer's attention to the movements to be performed

d) Increase the cognitive processing requirement for learning the skill

a) Change an abstract array of movements to a more meaningful form

If you are asked to demonstrate how you tie your shoes, you would base your demonstration on knowledge stored in long-term memory in the:

a) Episodic memory system

b) Procedural memory system

c) Semantic memory system

d) Muscle memory system

b) Procedural memory system