Exam 6: Memory

In one study, adults who had graduated from high school more than 40 years earlier were able to recognize about ________ percent of their classmates.

Rotating an M until it is recognized as a W is evidence that we can process information in ________.

For more than 20 years, the most influential researcher into eyewitness memory has been ________.

The process of selective looking, feeling, listening, smelling, and tasting is called attention.

________ is another term that is often used to refer to short-term memory.

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains, he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name. The kind of memory he is exhibiting by remembering his home's location and the names of his wife and children is ________ memory.

The type of memory that is essentially a diary or daily journal that lets you "go back in time" and revisit past experiences is called ________ memory.

The memories primarily located in the cerebellum are ________ memories.

The linking of new information in short-term memory to familiar material stored in long- term memory is called ________.

Memory for information that was unintentionally retrieved from memory is called ________ memory.

Emotional memories are dependent on the ________.

Some of the simplest mnemonic techniques are rhymes and jingles.

Suddenly thinking of a friend's name without knowing why is an example of ________ memory.

The portion of long-term memory that stores general facts and information is called ________ memory.

Long-term memory is sometimes called working memory.

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 ________.

Flashbulb memories ________.

The computer-like model used to describe the way humans encode, store, and retrieve information is the ________ model.

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

An item is easier to remember ________.