Exam 7: Memory

You don't have a telephone directory and you are trying to remember the phone number of your local pizza parlor.You must rely on

Memory improves when there is an increase in

A retrieval cue essentially is

If you want to remember a set of information for a long time,under a variety of conditions,the best advice is to study the information repeatedly at your usual work station (e.g. ,your desk).

You memorize twenty poems while your twin plays video games.Then both of you memorize another poem and you forget it faster.Why did you forget it faster?

People can often work on two unrelated tasks (such as remembering a series of 5 digits while also doing a visual task)with less interference between the tasks than one might expect.This fact has been taken as support for the idea that

The telephone company's use of area codes followed by different 4-digit phone numbers makes it easier to remember the numbers of several different friends because of

Two groups of people watched a videotape of an automobile accident.One group was asked the question "Did you see the children getting off the school bus?" even though there was no school bus in the video.A week later,both groups were asked,"Did you see a school bus in the film?" What happened?

You have a psychology test in four days,and you will spend a total of ten hours studying.Because you paid attention while reading the memory chapter,you know that the best strategy for studying is to

The information-processing model compares human memory to that of a computer.

The concept of working memory is roughly synonymous with

What is unusual about implicit tests of memory,as compared to the recall and recognition methods?

If you were trying to remember the names of U.S.presidents,you would probably have the most trouble remembering

Procedural memory is considered to be a type of implicit memory.

When someone is trying to memorize a list of items,memory will be better if the person organizes the items into related categories.Who is most likely to do so?

In one recent study relevant to infant amnesia,three-to-four-year-old children could describe an experience that happened a few months ago ONLY IF

What is anterograde amnesia?

Your memory of the rules of basketball or golf is a type of

The patient H.M.suffered severe anterograde amnesia as a result of damage to which part of his brain?

The encoding specificity principle refers to the fact that retrieval cues are more effective in stimulating a memory if those retrieval cues