Exam 10: Memory

Auditory images remain in the sensory register for about:

Jannell solved a crossword puzzle on Thursday, and by Saturday she doesn't recall the words in the puzzle. But Saturday night, when she is playing Scrabble with her brother, she unconsciously tends to form words that were in the puzzle. Jannell has ________ memory for some of the words.

In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the capacity of short-term memory to be the magical number:

Why is short-term memory sometimes called a "leaky bucket"?

What are the components of the information-processing model, in order of occurrence?

In thinking about real-life problems, a person must be able to use dialectical reasoning, as explained in Chapter 9 (Thinking and Intelligence). Use dialectical reasoning to consider the controversial topic of eyewitness testimony presented in our chapter on memory. Should the testimony of preschoolers be trusted in situations involving child abuse?

Memories for the performance of actions or skills are called:

A man is talking about his earliest memory to a bank teller while Jake is in line at the bank. The man describes eating candy he received as a gift. What country did the man most likely grow up in?

In the mid-1980s, the nation's media focused on the McMartin preschool in Los Angeles, where children claimed to have been hung in trees, raped, and forced to eat feces. Although none of the children had shown symptoms or problems during their preschool experience, most of the accused teachers were sentenced to years in prison. What has research revealed about the accuracy of children's testimony in cases such as this? Under what conditions are children apt to be suggestible?

________ refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information.

When researchers investigated the organization of long-term memory, they found that:

Casey was visiting a friend in New York City on September 11, 2001, the day of the attack on the World Trade Center. To her, that day seems frozen in time. She remembers exactly where she was, what she was doing, and what she felt as the morning transpired. This vivid recollection is known as:

Amnesia can be organic-for example, resulting from ________-or psychogenic (i.e., resulting from ________).

Which of the following parts of the brain is most likely to form and retain procedural memories?

When you recall the names of the days of the week, you are relying on ________ memory.

________ memory refers to the recollection of a personally experienced event and the context in which it occurred.

Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts and actions, is called:

During short-term memory tasks, the ________ is especially active.

Which of the following ways of measuring explicit memory are usually the easiest for the person being tested?

Eyewitness testimonies by victims are most likely to contain errors when the suspect: