Exam 6: Memory

The other day, you had to remember some items for an important exam. You are sure you studied them and knew them before you entered the classroom. However, you drew a blank when you took the test. What happened? Why might you not have remembered them? What might you have done to avoid this?

John labored long hours to master calculus. However, a year later when he took a more advanced course, he found that it did not take him very long to re-master what he had learned the previous year. This is an example of which memory process?

Which technique is widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

This researcher introduced the curve of forgetting.

A police officer is shot in a gun battle with bank robbers. Although emergency brain surgery saves his life, it leaves him unable to store new information. The officer's family is applying to the state for compensation for his injuries. When asked to provide a diagnosis of the difficulties he suffers, what will they write?

Which memory system is the one that is a working, active system that processes the information within it?

In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus, the greatest amount of forgetting occurs _____________.

Chunking is a means of _________

This researcher conducted the first experiments on learning and memory.

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. This is an example of the _____________

Most people have difficulty actually recognizing the correct image of the Lincoln penny. The most likely cause of this problem is _______________.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main types of tasks used by psychologists to measure memory?

Which of these individuals is the most typical person involved in a case in which memories of past childhood abuse are recalled later in life?

Bahrick found that after 35 years, people could recognize 90% of their high school classmates names and photographs from high school pictures, about the same as recent graduates. This suggests that decay does not greatly impact__________

This researcher suggests that memory is a reconstruction of event highlights that may, or may not be accurate.

Mia is trying to recall an important phone number long enough for her to get to a pay phone and dial it. Mia repeats the number to herself to aid in her recall. This is an example of__________

In Bartlett's studies using stories learned and remembered under life-like conditions, which of the following did he NOT find?

What is sensory memory? Describe what it is and how it works. Be sure to include a description of Sperling's experiment, which was used to demonstrate and investigate sensory memory.

Ebbinghaus's research suggests that__________

Evidence suggests that working memories are stored in the _____________