Exam 7: Memory

The explanation for which of the following memory illusions is that people are implicitly remembering similar,but unidentifiable,situations they have previously experienced in their present lives?

Forgetting due to interference from newly learned information is known as ____.

Which of the following original defining characteristics of short-term memory is(are)not part of the concept of working memory?

Differentiate between explicit memory and implicit memory.

A memory model concerning the sequential processing and use of information,involving encoding,storage,and retrieval is known as ____.

Auditory echoes ____ than visual images.

The primacy and recency effects discovered by Ebbinghaus provided evidence for two distinct memory systems known as ____.

Which of the following memory illusions is also known as unintended plagiarism?

Remembering your first driving lesson,favorite pet,or your best friend's most embarrassing experience are examples of ____.

The prosecuting attorney approached the witness on the stand and asked,"Mr.Peabody.Based on your own memory,how fast was the defendant's car going when you saw it SMASH into the victim's car?!" By using the word "smash" rather than "hit," the prosecutor may be attempting to create a(n)____ in the witness.

Freud believed that ____ occurs when a person unconsciously "pushes" unpleasant memories out of conscious awareness.

In an experiment,subjects were much more likely to accurately recognize the word "pearl" from a previously presented list of words if the experimenter had initially presented the word within the following sentence,"Oysters produce pearls" rather than in the sentence "Pearl rhymes with curl." The subjects' better remembering of the word pearl when it was initially presented to them semantically rather than as a rhyme is consistent with the ____.

Groundbreaking research in the area of sensory memory is associated with ____.

The memory model that is active and contains a "central executive" processor and two subsystems for temporarily storing audio and visual-spatial input is known as ____.

The purpose of the ____ memory system is to retain for a split second a highly accurate record of what each of our senses has just experienced in the environment.

Kandel and Schwartz discovered that significant changes occurred in both the ____ and ____ of the sea slug's affected neurons.

In Hermann Ebbinghaus's "forgetting curve," more than 40 percent of the material was forgotten after just ____.

Which method would you normally rely on when memorizing dialogue in a play,multiplication tables,or foreign language vocabulary?

For chunking to effectively increase short-term memory capacity,it often requires the retrieval of information from ____.

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?