Exam 6: Memory

The sensory registers have a ________ capacity and hold information for a ________ time.

Summarize the research on the reliability of eyewitness testimony.

The standard method of storing away largely meaningless material such as phone numbers, birth dates, and people's names is through the use of ________.

Define "childhood amnesia" and describe the factors that may contribute to childhood amnesia.

The entry point for raw information from the senses are the ________.

Describe the various environmental factors and internal cues that can affect memory and forgetting.

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

Which of the following people is most likely to recall events from early in life?

Becoming instantly enraged at the sight of a Nazi swastika is an example of a(n) ________ memory.

Which of the following statements about the sensory registers is true?

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

Most information in long-term memory is coded in terms of the intensity of the stimuli.

Elaborative rehearsal is the process through which ________.

The cashier at McDonald's says, "That will be $3.17 please." What kind of code would most people use to remember "$3.17" while they are reaching for their money?

Of the following, the hippocampus is least involved in ________ memory.

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 ________.

Mnemonics are ________.

According to the modified filter theory, information will draw our attention if it stands out because of its ________.

Ebbinghaus used ________ to study memory processes.

The type of memory that stores information relating to skills, habits, and other complex perceptual-motor tasks is ________ memory.