Exam 6: Memory

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

Information disappears most quickly from ________.

Material stored in short-term memory remains there for about ________ and then fades unless rehearsed or practiced.

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

The words "boat" and "goat" are most likely to become confused in short-term memory because ________.

The capacity for short-term memory is greater with visual coding than acoustical coding.

When you listen to a conversation or song on the radio, or watch a television show, you are using ________ to hold onto and think about new information coming in from the sensory registers.

Sensory data flows from your senses into the sensory registers.

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

Many middle-aged adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ________.

If people learn material while under the influence of caffeine, they are more likely to ________.

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

Which kinds of items are most likely to be confused in an experiment on short-term memory?

The most accurate description of short-term memory's capacity is probably to say that it can hold ________.

Which statement is true of short-term memory?

Today, many psychologists view how memory operates as being similar to how a computer stores and retrieves data.

When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list. This is known as the ________.

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 ________.

The first stage of information processing involves ________.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ________.