Exam 6: Memory

When given a list of items to remember, you are most likely to remember the items ________.

In Sperling's experiments, people were able to remember about ________ of 12 letters presented to them if he waited a full second between presenting the letters and asking people to recall them.

The finding that when asked to recall a list of unrelated items memory is better for the items at the beginning and at the end of the list is known as the ________.

It is now believed that short-term memory can hold as much information as can be repeated or rehearsed in ________ seconds.

A mental representation of an event, an object, a situation, a person, a process, or a relationship that is stored in memory and that leads you to expect your experience to be organized in certain ways is a(n) ________.

Research on memory began in the middle of the ________ century.

Recent research suggests that short-term memory can hold as much information as long-term memory.

In interviewing witnesses to a bank robbery, detective Watson hears a slightly different story from each witness. Some witnesses say the robber was tall, while others maintain he was short. Some say he was wearing a black jacket, while others say it was blue. One person even said there were two robbers. The most likely explanation for these differences in the witnesses' recall is ________.

When we are pricing items in a grocery store, and we attempt to remember the prices of three different brands of 7-ounce cans of tuna fish by repeating them again and again, the information is being held in ________.

Flashbulb memories are almost always accurate.

Which of the following statements is true?

In short-term memory, we usually store memories for images ________, and we usually store memory for words ________.

Which of the following pairs of letters would most likely be confused in an experiment on short-term memory?

The first stage of information processing involves ________.

Explain the differences among retrograde amnesia, Korsakoff's disease, and Alzheimer's disease.

Explain what the serial position effect, the primacy effect, and the recency effect are.

The most important determinant of interference is ________.

A possible limitation of Ebbinghaus's studies was that he ________.

Procedural memories are dependent upon the amygdala.

Knowing a word without being able to immediately recall it is known as ________.