Exam 6: Memory

Mary has just met an attractive man named Austin at a party. She wants to make sure she remembers his name. What should she do?

For information to travel from sensory memory to short-term memory, it must first be ______________ and then encoded primarily into _______________ form.

Semantic memory is organized __________.

The average memory span consists of _______ items.

Which of the following statements is true about retrieval?

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE. This tactic is called _________.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ______.

Kerry's grandparents moved to a new neighborhood last year. Today, Kerry can easily remember their address but messes up their old one. This illustrates:

You try to remember a phone number by repeating it over and over to yourself. What type of rehearsal are you using?

Which of the following might be the most appropriate analogy for eidetic imagery?

Professionals using electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for patients suffering from severe depression have shown that the memory processes of consolidation _________.

Give a short example of retroactive interference.

Jesse still has very vivid memories of his first romantic kiss. This example illustrates a specific form of _________ memory known as a(n) _________ memory.

The first step in the memory process is _________ information in a form that the memory system can use.

Which memory system is the one that is a working, active system that processes the information within it?

Maintenance rehearsal is defined as _________.

Reproducing what one has learned exactly as one learned it, is required in the ______ method of testing memory.

Memory is:

Rochelle remembered getting "B's" in her English lit classes in college. But years later, when she applied for a job and took out her transcript, she was shocked to find that she had actually gotten "C-" grades. She then started telling everyone she remembers being a pretty poor student. Her erratic memory of her mediocre performance is most likely due to _________.

What kind of forgetting does the following incident illustrate? Ruth studied the names of learning theorists for her psychology class, after which she began studying the names of political theorists for her political science class. Much to her frustration, she found the names of the learning theorists were keeping her from being able to learn the names of the political theorists.