Exam 6: Memory

The words "moat" and "coat" are most likely to become confused in short-term memory because ________.

If people learn material while under the influence of caffeine, they are more likely to ________.

Today, many psychologists view how memory operates as being similar to how a computer stores and retrieves data.

Compare and contrast Broadbent's filter theory with Treisman's modified filter theory. Which theory best accounts for the ways in which people select what they attend to from the massive amount of information entering the sensory registers?

The ability to remember the things that we have experienced, imagined, and learned is known as ________.

Procedural memories are dependent upon the amygdala.

The phenomenon in which memories are not lost, but are transformed into something at least partly different from what they were originally is ________.

If the most recent theories regarding the capacity of short-term memory are correct, then ________.

Some of the simplest mnemonic techniques are rhymes and jingles.

Using repetition and deliberate practice to master skills and habits is essential to ________ memories.

Which of the following is true of memory and culture?

When people are asked to recall names of people, there is increased activity in a particular area of the ________ lobe.

Long-term semantic memories seem to be located primarily in the ________.

Someone sitting at another booth in a restaurant, to whom you have been paying no attention, quietly speaks your name, and suddenly you are attending to that conversation. This is an example of ________.

Reconstructive memory can be used for social or personal self-defense.

Remembering that the French word "maison" means house by connecting maison with the English word "masonry" illustrates the use of ________.

The capacity for short-term memory is greater with visual coding than acoustical coding.

Michael is studying for a test in chemistry. After seven consecutive hours of studying, he finds he can remember what he studied five or six hours ago, but he cannot remember what he studied just ten minutes ago. Michael's memory problems are best explained by ________.

It is easier to remember the names of seven people you just met at a party than it is to remember their addresses (even if both pieces of information were given to you at the same time), because there is a(n)________.

The type of memory that is most like an encyclopedia or a dictionary is ________ memory.