Exam 6: Long-Term Memory: Influences on Retrieval

______ processing is to questions about typeface as ______ processing is to questions about sentence completion.

Matching the circumstances of encoding and retrieval aids memory. This phenomenon is known as the ______.

"A natural process that occurs when information is unable to be retrieved from memory" is the definition of ______.

Your textbook describes the case of AJ, who claimed to be able to report what occurred in her life on any date past 1980. The researchers tested AJ and found that she had a superior ______.

Define the serial position curve and discuss why it is relevant to everyday living. Give examples.

The beginning of a word list is to the ______ as the end of a word list is to the ______.

Your professor asks you to design a series of cued recall tasks. Which of these examples could you use?

Processing the meaning of information is known as ______.

Both encoding and retrieval together influence memory performance in ______.

After you have memorized a list of words, you are most likely to demonstrate ______ if you are tested on the list immediately.

Of the three main processes of memory--encoding, storage, and retrieval--______ and ______ are the processes most under our control.

During college, you took several semesters of a foreign language. According to Ebbinghaus, you would ______ a lot of information early on, but then the rate of loss ______ as the length of time since study ______.

Study is to ______ as tests are to ______.

Sleeping between the study period and the test of information you want to remember will make it more difficult for you to retrieve that information from long-term memory.

Your textbook describes how memory champions devise a(n) ______ to help them remember and navigate through a great deal of information.

For thousands of years, humans have used memory techniques called ______ to help them remember information.

A neural process by which memories are strengthened and more permanently stored in the brain is ______.

While studying for a psychology exam, you devise a poem about Piaget's stages of development to help you remember them. This is an example of ______.

The more ______ encoding processes are, the better we remember.

Jenna and Ellis give each other practice quizzes between studying and taking their exam. They are trying to take advantage of the ______ effect.