Exam 7: Memory

One of the leading causes of neurological disorders (including memory loss)among Americans between the ages of 15 and 25 is ________.

In answering this question, the correct multiple-choice option may serve as a ________ for recalling accurate information from your long-term memory.

Research shows that introducing a time delay between the presentation of a list of words and a recall test impairs performance on recall of the end of the list.This finding can be interpreted as evidence for which theory of forgetting?

________ interference occurs when new information interferes with the recall of old information.

The method of loci and acronyms are examples of ________.

If you learn something while under the influence of caffeine, you recall it better when you are using caffeine again; this is known as ________ memory.

Massed practice is another term for ________, which is an inefficient form of studying.

Distributed practice is a learning technique in which ________.

Yu-Wai just met a woman he feels attracted to.He keeps saying her name over and over to himself to make sure he doesn't forget it.Yu-Wai is using ________ to keep this woman's name in ________ memory.

Hormones ________ memory.

Students who study in long, unbroken intervals are engaged in _________, and are likely to perform ________ on a test of what they learned.

To remember the pathway for vision you imagine yourself walking into your house, noting the cornea peephole in the front door, the entryway fishbowl full of aqueous humor, and a pupil seated in your living room handing you a lens as you enter the dining room where glasses filled with vitreous humor rest on a retinal tablecloth with pictures of rods and cones.This is an example of ________.

To measure Anita's retention of the poems she learned 15 years ago, the time it took her to review, recall, and recite the poetry was recorded.This is an example of ________.

Short-term memory receives information direction from ________ memory shortly after encoding has occurred.

An assailant entered a classroom and attacked the professor during class! Of course, it was staged for a learning experience so the professor said, "What did he look like? I only noticed he was really tall," even though he was actually rather short.When questioned by the police, most students described the assailant as being really tall; this is known as the ________.

This is an example of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon.

According to research, eyewitnesses generally report ________ confidence in the accuracy of their inaccurate memories.

What conclusion can be drawn from cross-cultural studies of memory?

Although repression, as a defense mechanism, is highly accepted as possible in psychology, the concept of repressed memories of ________, and their storage in the unconscious mind, is highly questioned.

An essay test requires the use of ________ because you must use very general retrieval cues to search the contents of your LTM.