Exam 6: Memory

You are invited to take part in a study by a researcher trying to replicate the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus. What might this researcher ask you to do?

In the levels-of-processing model of memory, information that gets processed at a _________level (such as accessing the meaning of a word or phrase) is more likely to be retained longer and form a stronger memory than information that is processed at a _________ level (such as the visual characteristics of a word).

A psychologist asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher. Surprisingly, the majority of people correctly do this and comment, “Gee whiz, I haven’t thought about that old bat [or old coot] in years!” Their ability to do so tends to conflict with which theory of forgetting?

Someone a short distance away, to whom you have been paying no attention, quietly speaks your name, and suddenly you attend to that person. This is an example of _________.

An individual's semantic memory contains:

A time machine provides you the opportunity to interview Sigmund Freud. During the interview, Freud admits that he never wanted to attend medical school. When you ask him how he made it through, he says, "I had eidetic imagery." What does he mean by that?

Christine has always had an unusually effective memory. She credits this to the fact that after seeing something just once, she can visualize the object in great detail, as if she was looking at a photograph of it. Christine's ability is an example of ________.

When given a list of items to remember, you are more likely to remember the items _________.

In anterograde amnesia, memory for anything new becomes impossible, although old memories may still be retrievable.

Maria finds that it is easier to remember her student ID number if she thinks of it in segments, such as the first three digits, then the next two, and then the final four. Each of these short segments of the number are called _________.

A. R. Luria studied a mnemonist with phenomenal memory. This person had several problems associated with the ability. Which was one was reported in your textbook?

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means _______.

Alzheimer's disease accounts for between ____________ percent of all dementia cases in the United States.

Which of the following statements is true of retrieval cues?

When the sound of the word is the aspect that cannot be retrieved, leaving only the feeling of knowing the word without the ability to pronounce it, this is known as _________.

Memories for general facts and information that make up knowledge are called _________.

Elaborative rehearsal is a way of transferring information from short-term memory into long-term memory by making that information meaningful in some way.

Chunking aids:

The type of memory that is most like an encyclopedia or a dictionary is __________.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.