Exam 8: Memory

Which is most effective; distributed or massed practice?

The prefrontal cortex is to the hippocampus as ________ memory is to ________ memory.

George took a history exam that required him to remember names and dates from "scratch." This lack of retrieval cues identifies what type of memory task format?

Define "chunking" and explain how this concept reveals that working memory can hold more than 7 plus or minus 2 words/numbers.

As we age, parts of the brain such as the ________begin to shrink.

You desperately need to study French vocabulary. Your roommate recommends that you sit at your desk and turn off the TV and your phone. Is this good advice? Why or why not?

Emotion might enhance memory by a number of mechanisms. Which mechanism below is CORRECTLY matched with an example?

When you tell an acquaintance your telephone number, you do not recite the digits one by one at a constant rate, as in "3, 3, 7, 2, 3, 4, 8, 3, 9, 2." Rather, you might say, "3, 3, 7 . . . 2, 3, 4 . . . 83, 92." This exemplifies ________, a strategy to enhance ______ memory.

Concerning the activation of areas in visual cortex by true and false memories, which of the following statements is TRUE?

What has empirical research had to say regarding the idea that people repress the memory of unpleasant events?

According to interference theory, forgetting is dependent on what happens before or after information is learned.

Which of the following activities is CORRECTLY identified as either an automatic processing task or an effortful processing task?

You are trying to remember an address long enough to map it using your search engine. Research suggests that you will probably encode the address using a(n) ______ code.

The inability to retrieve information from long term memory might be due to retrieval failure.

Some psychologists believe that test anxiety results in poor performance on examinations because the negative thoughts accompanying the anxiety impede the retrieval of test-relevant information. This illustrates an application of the ______ theory of forgetting.

Memory distortions occur because we tend to rely on ________codes during encoding and we may be unable to accurately reconstruct memories during retrieval.

While learning the colors associated with our perception of the visual spectrum, Susan memorized "ROY G BIV." This is an example of which type of memory aid?

Regardless of precise organization, how are the pieces of information stored in long term memory linked to one another?

______ or consciously repeating information increases the likelihood of information being encoded into working memory

Gemma studies History immediately before she falls asleep, so that it will be the last thing that she learns each day. Holt plays tapes of his professor's Economics lectures while he sleeps, thinking he'll absorb the material 'subconsciously.' Armed with your knowledge of the psychology of memory, what might you tell Gemma? Holt?