Exam 6: Memory

The portion of long-term memory that stores specific information of personally experienced events is called ________ memory.

Remembering how to tie your shoes or drive a car are examples of ________ memory.

George imagines a lawyer's office as having a large mahogany desk, with leather chairs, surrounded by large bookshelves full of law books and framed diplomas and law degrees hanging from wood-paneled walls. His vision of a lawyer's office is a(n) ________.

Each of the following is true of recovered memories except ________.

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

Which of the following statements is not true?

Randy is recovering from an automobile accident in which he injured his head. The only noticeable psychological symptom of his injury is that he cannot remember what happened immediately prior to the accident. Randy's symptoms are typical of ________.

Current research indicates that memories consist of ________.

It is easier to remember the names of seven people you just met at a party than it is to remember their addresses (even if both pieces of information were given to you at the same time), because there is a(n)________.

According to Treisman's modified filter theory, information will draw our attention if it stands out because of its ________.

Material is transferred from short-term to long-term memory through ________.

Explain what the serial position effect, the primacy effect, and the recency effect are.

General knowledge of facts and information is stored in semantic memory.

Information is grouped for storage in short-term memory through the process of ________.

Visual information in the sensory registers is gone when it ________.

Memory for information that was unintentionally retrieved from memory is called ________ memory.

Broadbent's filter theory states that the sensory filters operate like the volume control on a radio, rather than a toggle switch.

The type of memory that stores information relating to skills, habits, and other complex physical tasks is ________ memory.

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

The icon and the echo refer to materials stored in ________.