A main function of _________ is managing the suppression of task-irrelevant information. 

Imagine that you’re creating a grocery list in your kitchen while your roommate is watching TV in the next room. On TV, there’s a commercial for spaghetti sauce. You “suddenly” recall that you need to pick up spaghetti sauce and you add it to the list, even though you are not paying attention to the TV (and so do not “hear” what is being stated). Which of the following attention models best predicts your behavior?

Choose the option that is the best example of a semantic memory

I present a shape (square, circle, star, etc.) on the screen. After 2 seconds, I present a new shape on the screen, and your task is to tell me if the new shape is in the same location as the first shape. What is required to complete this task?

The fundamental distinction between early and late selection attention models is that in late selection models, the selection of stimuli for final processing does not take place until the information has been evaluated for

In an experiment, participants learn new information while they are either calm or anxious. Later, they are tested on the information either in a calm or anxious state. According to state-dependent memory, which group would likely perform best?

The word-length effect reveals that

The recency effect is a memory bias that occurs when participants are asked to remember a list of items (e.g., words). A method that eliminates the recency effect is to

We are aware of _____ memories.

In an experiment, participants were placed in an office and after leaving, were asked to recall the objects they saw in the room. They ‘remembered’ some objects, like books, that were not present. This illustrates the impact of _____ on memory.