Exam 6: Memory

The process of selective looking, feeling, listening, smelling, and tasting is called attention.

Summarize the research on the reliability of eyewitness testimony.

The capacity of long-term memory is virtually limitless.

Repeating an item more often improves long-term recall.

The best way to transfer information from short-term memory to permanent memory is rote rehearsal.

Which of the following statements is true?

Today, many psychologists view how memory operates as being similar to how a computer stores and retrieves data.

Different domain specific memory systems ________.

Each of the following is true of eyewitness testimony except it ________.

The inability to recall events immediately preceding an accident or injury, but without loss of earlier memory is called ________ amnesia.

A psychologist flashes a sequence of five letters (such as STWLG) on a screen in front of you and then asks you immediately to count backward from 1000 by 7s. After a few seconds, she asks you to recall the five letters. This psychologist is most likely studying the ________.

If the most recent theories regarding the capacity of short-term memory are correct, then ________.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ________.

When you listen to a conversation or song on the radio, or watch a television show, you are using ________ to hold onto and think about new information coming in from the sensory registers.

The capacity for short-term memory is greater with visual coding than acoustical coding.

The phenomenon in which memories are not lost, but are transformed into something at least partly different from what they were originally is ________.

In Sperling's experiments, people were able to remember about ________ of 12 letters in a given row presented to them if he waited a full second between presenting the letters and asking people to recall them.

Becoming instantly enraged at the sight of a Nazi swastika is an example of a(n) ________ memory.

Tim is studying for a test. After seven consecutive hours of studying, he finds he can remember what he studied five or six hours ago, but he cannot remember what he studied just ten minutes ago. Tim's memory problems are best explained by ________.

Procedural memories are dependent upon the amygdala.