Exam 6: Memory

Our auditory sensation of someone singing would be initially stored in ________.

Chang searched for a phone number to his favorite sandwich shop, so that he could place a pick-up order. He finally found the number in an old phone book, but he had left his phone in the other room. He repeated the number again and again until he got his phone and was able to put the number in. This memory tactic is called ________.

Chunking is a means of ________.

The sensory registers ________.

Summarize the research on autobiographical memory and flashbulb memories. How accurate are these memories, who is most likely to have memories of early life experiences, and what kinds of early memories are people most likely to have?

If you are trying to memorize a list of numbers, which of the following would be most likely to cause you to forget or mix up the numbers on your list?

A mental representation of an event, an object, a situation, a person, a process, or a relationship that is stored in memory and that leads you to expect your experience to be organized in certain ways is a(n) ________.

Explain what the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is, what factors make it more likely to occur, and what can be done to cope with it when it occurs.

Which of the following statements is true?

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

When we are pricing items in an electronics store, and we attempt to remember the prices of three different computers by repeating them again and again, the information is being held in ________.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ________.

Summarize the research on the reliability of eyewitness testimony.

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means ________.

What we are thinking about or are aware of at any given moment is in our ________.

Each of the following is true of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon except ________.

Younger adults are more likely than adults over age 50 to remember events from relatively early in life.

Compare and contrast rote rehearsal with elaborative rehearsal.

Experiments known as distractor studies have found most of the evidence supporting ________ theory.

Many older millennials can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that the World Trade Center towers fell, although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before. This is an example of ________.