Exam 8: Memory

Kim and Jordan are both eyewitnesses to a bank robbery.At the police station they each select Mike from a police lineup,and say,"He's the thief." It turns out though,that Mike has been a customer at the store where Kim works.Jordan has never seen Mike before.With this background,whose identification of Mike is more valuable to the police?

While the primacy effect is thought to be due to the early transfer of information to long-term memory,this effect appears to be due to information remaining in short-term memory.This is called the __________ effect.

A proponent of the neural network theory of memory would most likely argue that each __________ in your brain is a node in a network.

The concept of state-dependent memory asserts that memory retrieval will be better if:

An organized pattern of thought about some aspect of the world,such as people,events,situations,or objects is called a ____________.

examining the effect of misleading questions on children's memories for a single painful hospital procedure revealed that the memories of both younger and older children were not influenced by these questions.

Retroactive interference is said to occur when newly acquired material in memory interferes with the recall of ____________ material.

A friend asks you to make a phone call for them and tells you the phone number to call.As you walk to the telephone booth,you silently repeat the number to yourself to remember it.This example best demonstrates the process of:

___________ refers to the process of getting information into memory by translating it into a neural code that your brain can process.

The distortion of a memory by misleading post-event data or facts is known as:

Approximately,5 to 9 meaningful pieces of information is the capacity of _____________ memory.

If you were to perform a mental computation such as adding the numbers 26 and 41 in your head,it is assumed that you would be doing this in your:

The amnesia patient H.M.had an operation that accidentally caused his memory damage and consequently he showed a mild memory loss for the events in his life that occurred one to two years before the operation.This type of memory loss is an example of what is called:

When people learn lists of words and are tested for recall at two different times,sometimes they recall more material during the second testing.This phenomenon is known as reminiscence and it is most incompatible with:

Research has revealed that flashbulb memories are not as accurate as people usually think they are.

Classically conditioned responses are to procedural memory as general factual knowledge of the world is to _________________.

Which of the following was mentioned as a suggestion for improving memory?

Elaborative rehearsal is more effective than maintenance rehearsal for transferring information into long-term memory.

The associative network model asserts that a node in a memory network consists of an idea,a word,or a concept,while the model that argues that a node is physical in nature and does not contain individual units of information is the ________________ model.

________________________ is the loss of memory for early experiences.