Exam 6: Memory

The process of getting information out of memory is known as:

Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ________ rehearsal.

An echo usually stays in the sensory registers for __________.

Flashbulb memories _________.

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending. This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation. Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of _________.

Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for plausible false events than for implausible ones.

The key to the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory was to _________.

Which of the following pairings would result in the best overall memory?

Which of the following statements about flashbulb memories is true?

Your mother tells you to dress for success at your interview because it's all about "first impressions." In other words, she is telling you that people often remember what they see first. This belief is in line with what element of memory?

Long-term memory is thought to be organized in the form of _________.

Evidence suggests that short-term memories are stored in the _________.

Retrograde amnesia is to anterograde amnesia as _________.

The Internet, with its series of links from one site to many others, is a good analogy for the organization of ________.

The short-term memory capacity (digit-span) in a normal adult is about:

The best analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized would be a_________.

The constructive processing effect refers to the tendency of people who are asked misleading questions or given misleading information to incorporate that information into their memories of a particular event.

In Hermann Ebbinghaus's classic study on memory and the forgetting curve, how long after learning the lists does most forgetting happen?

Episodic memory consists of personal facts and memories of one's personal history.

The research of Eich and Metcalf would suggest that if you were really happy when you were learning math, you should be _________ when taking the math exam to do well.