Exam 23: A: Studying and Building Memories

During the course of a day, people may unconsciously encode the sequence of the day's events. This best illustrates

Young adults have ________ working-memory capacity than children and ________ working-memory capacity than older adults.

Encoding verbal information based on the meaning of words is called

Which measure of memory retention assesses the ability to identify which items of currently presented information one had previously learned?

Three basic measures of memory retention are

Conscious memories of facts and personal experiences are called ________ memories.

The use of acronyms to improve one's memory of unfamiliar material best illustrates the value of

By showing people three rows of three letters each for only a fraction of a second, Sperling demonstrated that people have ________ memory.

The importance of parallel processing is emphasized by a model of memory known as

Which pioneering researcher made extensive use of nonsense syllables in the study of human memory?

Effortful processing is to automatic processing as ________ is to ________.

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system is called ________ memory.

High intelligence and an ability to maintain one's focus of attention is most closely associated with a high level of

Four-year-old Aaron doesn't recall ever seeing a hypodermic needle, and he can't remember the series of painful injections he received when he was a 2-year-old. When shown a hypodermic needle, however, he reacted with a classically conditioned fear response. Aaron's fear reaction indicates that he retains a(n) ________ memory.

The tendency for distributed study to yield better long-term retention than massed study is known as

As compared with long-term memory, short-term memory is ________ permanent and ________ limited in storage capacity.

We encode explicit memories by means of

Effortful processing is encoding that requires

Our two-track mind is most clearly illustrated by the difference between

An eyewitness to a bank robbery is asked to identify the suspects in a police lineup. Which test of memory is being used?