Exam 7: Memory

After a group project, the teacher asks each group member to rate the contribution of everyone in the group.All the group members have given their highest ratings to themselves.The teacher will be less puzzled by this outcome if she understands the concept of

The encoding specificity principle states that

The acronym LTP stands for

Jacob learned French in high school and is now learning Spanish in college.He finds that sometimes when he intends to write a Spanish word he instead writes a French word.Jacob's problem is due to

Yesterday you taught your dog to crawl across the floor while barking.If your dog is to perform this fabulous trick tomorrow, then he will need to the trick, then the trick, then ________ the trick.

If you spend the same amount of time reviewing material as testing yourself on the material, you will learn more from because of the increased time.

People who were close to the location of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorist attacks are very likely to show increased physiological responses to

Your school requires you to change your email password every 3 months.Now, when you try to remember the new password, you can only remember the old one.This effect is most likely due to

People usually remember how many days there are in the months of September, October, and May by using

Memory requires attention.If you want to remember something well, it is best to attend to only one thing at a time because attention

If you can remember exactly what you did yesterday but have trouble remembering the names of the 50 states, then you have excellent episodic memory but somewhat poor memory.

You memorize your four-digit personal identification number PIN) for your bank card, but you also store this number on your phone.You keep your bank card and your phone in your backpack, and a thief steals your backpack.When you get your new bank card, you have to make up a new PIN, but every time you try to withdraw money, you can only remember the old PIN.What best explains this combination of remembering and forgetting?

The inability to retrieve information from long-term memory is

You study Spanish during your freshman and sophomore years of college but then take a Portuguese class your senior year.You are likely to learning Portuguese because of all the Spanish you learned due to .

What are the three steps in memory information processing, in the correct order?

Forgetting the store where you bought your blue sweater is analogous to .Thinking that the red sweater is yours when you actually borrowed it from your sister is analogous to .

Asking an eyewitnesses how tall or how short the suspect was could result in

A children's flipbook consists of a series of pictures of Mickey Mouse with his feet in slightly different positions.If you look at the pages one at a time, slowly, all you see are the individual pictures of Mickey.However, if you flip the pages quickly, you see Mickey running.This illusion is due to storage of the successive pictures in memory.

Raul saw a car crash on the way to campus.Yosep participated in a psychology experiment in which he saw a film of a car crash.How accurate would you expect these memories to be, given the research on event memory?

As a friend gives you her new address over the phone, you realize that you do not have a pen to write it down.Approximately how long do you have to find a pen before her address will vanish from your short-term memory?