Exam 6: Memory

The two primary tasks of short-term memory are to ________.

Eyewitness testimony is generally very accurate and reliable.

He: "We met at nine." She: "We met at eight." He: "I was on time." She: "No, you were late." In these lyrics from the Lerner and Loewe musical "Gigi," a couple tries to recall the first time they met. The information they are seeking is part of ________ memory.

Procedural memories appear to be located primarily in the ________.

Visual information fades more slowly than auditory information.

Short-term memory usually has only one task to perform at a time.

An echo usually stays in the sensory registers for ________.

Explain what the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is, what factors make it more likely to occur, and what can be done to cope with it when it occurs.

The finding that people who learn material in a particular physiological condition tend to recall that material better if they return to the same condition they were in during learning is called ________ memory.

The computer-like model used to describe the way humans encode, store, and retrieve information is the ________ model.

Ebbinghaus found that ________.

In interviewing witnesses to a bank robbery, detective Watson hears a slightly different story from each witness. Some witnesses say the robber was tall, while others maintain he was short. Some say he was wearing a black jacket, while others say it was blue. One person even said there were two robbers. The most likely explanation for these differences in the witnesses' recall is ________.

Which of the following is true of memory and culture?

In summary, research on recovered memories ________.

The ability to remember the things that we have experienced, imagined, and learned is known as ________.

Interference theory holds that the passage of time leads to forgetting.

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three nonsense syllables for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the syllables came immediately, the students were usually successful. If the instructions came even one second after the syllables were shown, the students were much less successful. The most plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that in the latter case the icon ________.

Compare and contrast Broadbent's filter theory with Treisman's modified filter theory. Which theory best accounts for the ways in which people select what they attend to from the massive amount of information entering the sensory registers?

Someone a short distance away, to whom you have been paying no attention, quietly speaks your name, and suddenly you are attending to that conversation. This is an example of ________.

Christine has always had an unusually effective memory. She credits this to the fact that after seeing something just once, she can visualize the object in great detail, as if she was looking at a photograph of it. Christine's ability is an example of ________.