The Brown-Peterson task has been used to show that the duration of short-term memory is about:
a) 5 seconds.
b) 20 seconds.
c) 1 minute.
d) 30 minutes.
Question 2Based on the notion of executive control as inhibition, you would expect _____ Stroop interference in participants with a high operation span. This assumption ____ supported by the empirical evidence.
a) less; is
b) less; is not
c) more; is
d) more; is not
Question 3Conway, Cowan, and Bunting (2001) conducted an experiment that looked at working memory capacity and the cocktail party phenomenon. What did they find?
a) People who had more common names were less susceptible to the cocktail party phenomenon.
b) People who had less common names were less susceptible to the cocktail party phenomenon.
c) People with lower working memory capacity were less susceptible to the cocktail party phenomenon.
d) People with higher working memory capacity were less susceptible to the cocktail party phenomenon.
Question 4The operation span task:
a) is a measure of visual attention.
b) requires that participants memorize a series of numbers.
c) requires participants to perform three tasks concurrently.
d) requires attentional control and inhibition.
Question 5Chisholm, Caird, & Lockhart (2008) investigated the how the operation of an MP3 player (e.g., an iPod) impacts driving. They also investigated the effects of practice. What did they find?
a) Only difficult iPod tasks (e.g., finding a particular song) had a negative effect on driving.
b) Only difficult iPod tasks (e.g., finding a particular song) had a negative effect on driving, and the effects
diminished with practice.
c) Both difficult and easy iPod tasks had a negative effect on driving, and the negative effects of difficult iPod
tasks diminished with practice.
d) Neither difficult nor easy iPod tasks had a negative effect on driving,
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