Exam 6: Attention and Memory

When first learning to drive a manual transmission car,we are often aware of our processing and it seems to take all of our attention to coordinate our actions.This is an example of

Melena is having trouble remembering whether she took her medication or if she just thinks she did.This is an example of a(n)

The amount of attention one has to apply to a particular situation is one's____________________.

Seventy-five-year-old John has some difficulty making connections between to-be-learned information and information he already knows,but he keeps at it because he knows this helps his memory.John is engaging in

Viewing memory as a "mental muscle" characterizes which approach to memory skills training?

The awareness of what we are doing with our memory right now is known as

Identifying the correct information from a larger list of information is an example of

Which of the following is an external memory aid?

Research has shown that when older adults are asked to predict how well they will perform on a memory task,they are more accurate when

What variable affects whether age differences will be obtained on divided attention tasks?

Answering a short-answer or essay question are examples of

Winnie is busy taking notes from the slides presented during lecture and listening to the instructor.This is an example of

Focusing attention on the same task over an extended period of time is known as____________________.

The amount of information that can be processed at any given time is called the

Making connections between new information and already known information is called