Exam 7: Memory

An explanation for the widespread storage of memories is that ____________.

George Miller's estimate of the capacity of short-term memory is the "magical 2 to 20 range."

Early research into forgetting by Hermann Ebbinghaus found that forgetting occurs:

A system that allows people to retain information over time is called:

At the beginning history class, the teacher reviewed the major battles of the Napoleonic Wars. Later in class, he showed a video on the Holocaust during World War II. Based on the experiments on the effects of emotions on memory discussed in your textbook, what effect will watching the video have on the students' memories for the battles of the Napoleonic wars?

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

Jonathan is choosing a perpetrator from a lineup in a robbery that he witnessed. You can be most confident in his selection if:

When psychologists ask research participants to remember combinations of letters (such as TJD), why might they have participants engage in strange tasks such as counting backward by threes?

Tim is studying for a test. After seven consecutive hours of studying, he finds he can remember what he just finished studying, but he can no longer remember what he studied five or six hours ago. Tim's memory problems are BEST explained by __________.

False memories are especially likely to occur if you have thought about the imagined event many times.

You looked up a friend's address for a letter you wrote. Suddenly the phone rings-wrong number. Even though you were interrupted for only a few seconds, you've forgotten the address. Which memory system failed you?

The Atkinson-Shiffrin model is the best-known model of human memory. Describe the flow of information through human memory according to the model, including the basic properties of the different types of memory stores.

Which of the following is true about the hippocampus?

If a researcher showed that people remember pleasant memories better when they are happy than sad, this would be one method for demonstrating the importance of

In the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory, the participants were to report

Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred are called

Which memory system can be divided into four interrelated systems: central executive, visual sketchpad, episodic buffer, and the phonological loop?

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

Last week Lisa took an abnormal psychology test and did not miss a question. However, when a guest speaker came to class a week later to talk about schizophrenia, she had trouble remembering some of the relevant class material. She remembered even less about the topic when she saw a news report on schizophrenia a month later. What memory phenomenon explains what Lisa is experiencing?

What kind of forgetting does the following incident illustrate? Ruth studied the names of learning theorists for her psychology class, after which she began studying the names of political theorists for her political science class. Much to her frustration, she found the names of the learning theorists were keeping her from being able to learn the names of the political theorists.