Exam 6: Memory

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.

Which of the following statements about the sensory registers is true?

In a quiz bowl game, Samantha is asked to name the largest of the Great Lakes. This information is most likely stored in ________ memory.

Long-term memory is sometimes called working memory.

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains, he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name. The kind of memory he is exhibiting by remembering his home's location and the names of his wife and children is ________ memory.

Mnemonics are ________.

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

When two memory tasks are presented in different sensory modalities (for instance visual and auditory) ________.

Eyewitness testimony is generally very accurate and reliable.

Treisman's modified filter theory states that the sensory filters operate like the volume control on a radio, rather than a toggle switch.

The owner of a black Labrador can hear her dog when it barks in the night, although she sleeps through the sounds of other loud barking dogs. Whose theory of sensory register operation does this best support?

When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list. This is known as the ________.

Our memories of general knowledge items such as the meanings of words or the dates of famous historical events are stored in ________ memory.

Implicit memory includes ________ memories.

An item is easier to remember ________.

Define "childhood amnesia" and describe the factors that may contribute to childhood amnesia.

Visual information fades more slowly than auditory information.

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three nonsense syllables for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the syllables came immediately, the students were usually successful. If the instructions came even one second after the syllables were shown, the students were much less successful. The most plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that in the latter case the icon ________.

Flashbulb memories are almost always accurate.

Broadbent's filter theory states that the sensory filters operate like the volume control on a radio, rather than a toggle switch.