Exam 6: Memory

Recognition tests provide fewer retrieval cues than do recall tests.

Some psychologists ascribe infantile amnesia to the immaturity of the _____ among very young children.

The spacing effect refers to the benefit of _____ practice.

Dr.Handy is a psychologist who studies how the brain collects,stores,and retrieves information for later use.Which is the BEST term for Dr.Handy's area of interest?

Malik suffers from damage to his cerebellum; his episodic memory may be impaired as a result.

Information can last about 30 seconds in short-term memory.

When Braden types data into a spreadsheet he will save on his laptop's hard drive,his action is analogous to the memory process of encoding.

Short-term memory is the first stage in the information-processing model of memory.

The way that Loftus and Palmer (1974)asked participants about the cars in a filmed accident had little effect on participants' estimates of the vehicles' speeds.

George Sperling conducted a study in which he varied the interval between the presentation of a letter matrix and an auditory recall cue.Sperling measured the proportion of letters participants could recall from the matrix.Which statement regarding this study is TRUE?

Which statement is the BEST reason for viewing classical conditioning as a type of implicit memory?

In George Sperling's procedure,whole report performance exceeded partial report performance.

In a study described in the text some participants were asked to learn hierarchically organized words.Other participants were asked to learn the same words arranged randomly.All participants were later required to recall the words.Word recall was the _____ variable in this study.

The levels of processing framework proposes that the ease with which information is remembered may be traced to differences in the processing that occur during:

Research has shown that flashbulb memories are often:

On his computer desktop,Rodney can see several different files,each immediately accessible.Because he is actively working on them and can open them whenever he wants,these files are in fact very similar to the kind of information held in _____ memory.

Dr.Fernald is conducting a memory experiment.One group of participants has to decide whether each of a list of words begins with the same letter as a target word; a second group has to determine whether each of a list of words rhymes with a target word; finally,a third group has to determine whether each of a list of words is a synonym or an antonym of a target word.Later,all participants are asked to recall the list words.According to the levels of processing framework,which group will perform the BEST?

"Dog food,coffee,paper towels." Michelle's roommate begins reciting items into the phone as she gets into her car; Michelle is supposed to stop by the store on the way home.The roommate continues to list a few more items.Finally,he wraps with,"Coffee creamer,spaghetti sauce,dish soap,and iced tea mix." Michelle forgets a few things,but the spaghetti sauce,dish soap,and iced tea mix are in the bag.Her memory for these items reflects the _____ effect.

Scientists have isolated the hippocampus as the site of the engram.

Janna is puzzling over a short answer question on a sociology test.Answering the question correctly requires Janna to use her _____ memory.