Exam 6: Memory

The primacy effect refers to the tendency to remember the items at the end of a list.

Cramming is another name for massed practice.

Which option illustrates an elaborative rehearsal strategy?

Rich false memories include emotion as well as the recollection of events.

With respect to the repressed memory debate,the American Psychological Association released a 1998 statement affirming that:

Information may last for _____ seconds in sensory memory,and the capacity of sensory memory is _____.

Priti is using the method of loci to learn a list of compliance techniques in her social psychology textbook.Priti is using:

"What's your social?" the insurance provider on the phone asks Renee."One,six,four ..." Renee begins.After a brief pause,she continues,"seventy-two ...sixteen thirty-eight." To ease the burden on the insurance associate's short-term memory,Renee is giving the number in ______ rather than as individual digits.

The failure to remember events occurring after an accident or injury is called retrograde amnesia.

The benefit of distributed practice is also known as the spacing effect.

Using the partial report technique,George Sperling estimated that sensory memory stored at least _____ of the letters in a briefly-flashed array.

Psychologists first learned about the hippocampus's involvement in memory through the detailed study of a single individual with brain damage,namely Henry Molaison (H.M.).The in-depth study of H.M.exemplifies the _____ research method in psychology.

Clarice presses the Ctrl and S keys on her keyboard to save a document.A file is then created on her computer's hard drive.Clarice's action is MOST analogous to the memory activity of:

The term engram refers to:

Match the psychologist(s)with the correct concept or theory.

Which statement BEST captures the relationship between priming and a retrieval cue?

Memories of which a person is not consciously aware are called ______ memories.

Iconic memory lasts for ______ while echoic memory lasts for _____.

Grouping pieces of information together to expand the capacity of short-term memory is called:

After a severe bout of encephalitis,Clive Wearing could no longer develop new memories.Clive suffered from _____ amnesia.