Exam 6: Memory

Believers in the information-processing theory of memory are likely to agree that ____________

Short-term memory usually codes information according to__________

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

It has been estimated that the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number __________

Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!). Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth, but time is up. As Janie is walking down the stairs, all of a sudden, she remembers the fifth point, but it is too late. Janie had a problem with _____________

Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades?

H. M., a famous amnesiac, gave researchers solid information that the ______________ was important in storing new long-term memories.

It is thought that long-term memory never can get filled up. The term used to describe the capacity of long-term memory is ____________

A time machine provides you with the opportunity to interview Sigmund Freud. During the interview, Freud admits that he never wanted to attend medical school. When you ask him how he made it through, he says, "I had eidetic imagery." What does he mean by that?

Ebbinghaus used ________ as (a) participant(s).

Sensory memory normally holds visual images for a fraction of a second and sounds for about__________

Excessive levels of the stress hormone __________ has been shown to interfere with memory in patients who suffer from diseases of the adrenal glands.

Why did Hermann Ebbinghaus use nonsense syllables as stimuli in his memory research?

Name the three main processes of memory according to the information-processing model of memory.

Short-term memory has a very limited capacity of about ________ different items.

You try to remember a phone number by repeating it over and over to yourself. What type of rehearsal are you using?

Bass and Davis, in their book The Courage to Heal, proposed this highly controversial opinion__________

According to Bartlett, the integrated framework of knowledge and assumptions his subjects had about people, objects, and events were reflective of their__________

Billy found himself recalling the day many years before when he and his grandfather had gone fishing on a small mountain lake. Although he had not been back there since that time, he could recall the event so vividly that he could almost feel the sun and smell the mountain air. Billy is experiencing what type of memory?

The key to the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory was to ______________