Exam 7: Memory

Implicit memory is also referred to as ____ memory.

Mark is having a difficult time understanding the grammar of a foreign language.He keeps trying to apply the grammar of his native tongue to learning this new language.This is most likely an example of ____.

Wanda is jogging in a neighborhood.Suddenly she decides not to go down a certain street as she remembers she was chased by a large pit bull on that street on her 24th birthday.Which type of memory comes into play here?

Discuss the three basic components of working memory.

____ requires a person to decide whether or not something has been previously encountered.

Recall Bousfield's (1953)experiment from your text.Why did the subjects recall the 60 randomly presented words within their respective categories (e.g. ,names,animals,vegetables,and professions)after they were memorized instead of in the order those items were originally presented?

Which of the following refers to the first memory process,in which incoming information is organized and transformed so that it can be entered into memory?

Consider the Loftus and Palmer (1974)experiment from your text.Why did the participants who heard the word "smashed" instead of "contacted" to describe a collision,recall that there was broken glass at the accident scene,when,in fact,there was not?

Which of the following is the first memory system that typically comes into play in the memory process?

Counterfeiters can be more successful at "passing" fake currency because of which type of memory error?

Daniel has recently memorized the difference between the homophones: piece and peace.This process is known as ____.

Information must be encoded and ____ before it can be retrieved from long-term memory.

A friend just told Juan his new phone number.Juan recites the number to himself while he looks for something on which to write it down.Which technique is Juan using?

Forgetting due to the passage of time is known as ____.

Although we can store information in short-term memory using both ____ codes,we rely more on ____ encoding.

A memory system that very briefly stores the sensory characteristics of a stimulus is known as ____.

Which component of working memory represents all of what we originally thought of as short-term memory?

Why does information flow from short-term memory go to long-term memory?

Beyond the influence of interference,sometimes people forget things because they want to forget them.This is called ____.

The ____ is responsible for temporarily storing visual and spatial images.