Exam 6: Memory

Treisman's modified filter theory states that the sensory filters operate like the volume control on a radio, rather than a toggle switch.

Elaborative rehearsal is crucial to future recall.

James believes that there are only so many "slots" in STM and that new information must "bump out" old information, which is then forgotten. He would likely subscribe to which of the following theories of forgetting?

Researchers have found that long-term retention of information is particularly affected by ________.

Most information in long-term memory is coded ________.

Long-term memory is sometimes called working memory.

We encode verbal information in short-term memory ________.

Chunking is a means of ________.

The process in which new visual information constantly replaces old visual information in the sensory registers almost immediately is called ________.

An untreatable neurological disorder involving severe, progressive memory loss is called ________.

Words or letters that we see are coded visually (not verbally) in short-term memory.

The inability to recall events immediately preceding an accident or injury, but without loss of earlier memory is called ________ amnesia.

People are most likely to be able to perform impressive feats of memory regarding things that are significant to their culture.

Sometimes we know things but that knowledge is unconscious.

The sensory registers have a(n) ________ capacity.

A soap opera character is unable to remember anything about the car that ran her down on the street and gave her a concussion. This is an example of ________.

Information in short-term memory is coded ________.

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three nonsense syllables for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the syllables came immediately, the students were usually successful. If the instructions came even one second after the syllables were shown, the students were much less successful. The most plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that in the latter case the icon ________.

Which of the following memory systems can hold the most information?

An echo usually stays in the sensory registers for ________.