Exam 6: Memory

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three notes of music for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the notes came immediately, the students usually succeeded. If the instructions came more than three seconds after the notes were played, the students were much less successful. The MOST plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that, in the latter case, _____________ .

"Forgetting that occurs as a function of the passage of time" defines ________.

Believers in the information-processing model of memory are likely to agree that _________.

Researchers exploring false and real memories have found that _________.

Flashbulb memories _______.

When people hear a sound, their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve, which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound. This process is called _________.

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the ______.

What we are thinking of at any given moment, or what we commonly know as "consciousness," is ____________.

Information is grouped for storage in short-term memory through the process of __________.

_________ appear(s) to be responsible for the storage of new long-term memories. If it is removed, the ability to store anything new is completely lost.

According to the levels of processing model, we are most likely to remember information that we process at a _________ level.

An explanation for the widespread storage of memories is that ____________.

In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus, the greatest amount of forgetting occurs _____________.

Iconic memory allows us to remember the beginnings of sentences long enough to have meaningful conversations.

Sensing is to _______ memory as rehearsal is to _______.

It is thought that long-term memory never can get filled up. The term used to describe the capacity of long-term memory is _________.

Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone. He asks his partner to read him his credit card number. However, when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line, he can't remember all the numbers. Jamal is coming up against _________.

The sensory registers _____________.

Iconic memory is the visual sensory memory, in which an afterimage or icon will be held in neural form for about 5 seconds.

Decay theory works well to explain forgetting in _________.