Exam 10: Memory

The sensory register can hold sensory images indefinitely, as long as we continue to rehearse the information.

The ________ model represents the contents of memory as connections among a huge number of interacting processing units.

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.

One day after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, college students were asked questions about the experience and about a mundane event that occurred within the days prior to the attack. Later, the students were contacted and once again asked about their memory of the two events. What did this research reveal about flashbulb memories?

Which of the following confabulated "memories" might a person be most inclined to accept as having really happened to them, and why? a. getting lost in a shopping center at the age of 5 b. taking a class in astrophysics c. visiting a monastery in Tibet as a child d. being bullied by another kid in the fourth grade

In the three-box model, all incoming information from the outside world must make a brief stop in the sensory register.

According to the serial-position effect, if you are shown a list of items and then asked to immediately recall them, you will most easily recall items:

Auditory images remain in the sensory register for about:

Most people seem to favor ________ for encoding and rehearsing the contents of short-term memory.

Proactive interference occurs when recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember similar material that was stored previously.

Knowing how to ride a bicycle would be a procedural 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?

When a word is on the "tip-of-the-tongue," what errors are likely until the target word is recalled?

Under most circumstances, when you are intentionally trying to remember an item of information, ________ is an easier task than ________.

Which of the following is considered to be an implicit memory?

Research suggests that the best way to encourage truthful testimony by children is to:

According to the decay theory, forgetting occurs because:

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

________ acts as a holding bin, retaining information in a highly accurate form until we can select items for attention.

________ could be called "knowing how to do something" memories.