Exam 10: Memory

If the capacity of short-term memory is limited, how do we remember the beginning of a spoken sentence until the speaker gets to the end?

Although there is some debate, ________ is generally thought to have a capacity of seven plus or minus two units of information.

Which of the following examples is a question that would most likely reduce the chance of false reporting by a child?

If you are afraid or angry at the time of an event, you may remember that event best when you are once again in the same emotional state. This phenomenon is called:

Without the testimony of eyewitnesses, many guilty people would go free. But some convictions are tragic mistakes because memory is reconstructive and the testimony isn't always reliable. Describe conditions under which errors in eyewitness testimony are most likely to occur.

What research technique did Sir Frederic Bartlett, the British psychologist, use in order to study how memories are manufactured?