Exam 7: Memory.

Which of the following processes is like writing your name in wet concrete, that is, once the concrete is set, the information (your name)is fairly lasting, but while it is setting, it can be wiped out (amnesia)or scribbled over (interference)?

When discussing the relationship between short-term and long-term memory, the authors of your textbook use the analogy of a warehouse with filing cabinets and a desk.As information enters the warehouse, it is first placed on the desk.Because the desk is small, it must be quickly cleared off to make room for new information.While unimportant items are simply tossed away, personally or culturally meaningful information is placed in the files, which represent

Which of the following refers to the tendency for new memories to impair the retrieval of older memories as well as the tendency for older memories to impair one's retrieval of new memories?

According to your textbook, the Piaroa Indian shamans from Venezuela are able to store detailed information about the many plants in their region

Greg is watching television when a beer commercial comes on that he has seen many times.In this commercial, a boy goes to a cool party, sees an attractive girl, flashes his favorite beer, and gets the girl.A year later, a friend asks Greg where he met his girlfriend, and he relates a scenario very similar to the beer commercial, although his girlfriend does not remember any alcoholic beverages being served at this small "party" where they met.According to Jesse Shapiro, Greg's creation of a "memory" that never really happened occurred because advertisers were able to

Twenty years after graduating, a subject is able to correctly "pick out" photographs of students she attended high school with from a larger group of strangers.To do so she has used

According to Ebbinghaus, forgetting is

Which psychologist found that short-term memory is limited to the "magic number" seven (plus or minus two)information bits?

Explain the space and time capacities of short-term memory, the effects of chunking and maintenance rehearsal on these capacities, and the best method for moving information from short-term into long-term memory.

Eyewitnesses tend to be better at identifying members of their own ethnic group than persons from other groups.This phenomenon is best explained by

Negative transfer is most likely to occur when

Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer showed people a filmed automobile accident.Afterward, some participants were asked to estimate how fast the cars were going when they "smashed" into one another.For others the words "bumped," "contacted," or "hit" replaced "smashed." One week later, each person was asked, "Did you see any broken glass?" Those asked earlier about the cars that "smashed" into one another were more likely to say yes, even though no broken glass was shown in the film.The new information ("smashed")was incorporated into the original memories, elaborating them and producing a(n)__________ memory.

Which of the following would be an example of short-term memory?

Greg designates times during the week before, after, and between classes when he will study particular subjects, and, then, he treats these times just as if they are classes he has to attend.Greg is scheduling his time in order to make effective use of which study strategy?

You tell a person that you spent last spring holiday with your parents because that is where you usually spend your spring holiday, but then your best friend reminds you that you went with her to her parents last spring holiday.Your mistake illustrates our tendency to use logic to fill in gaps in memory, a process known as

You memorize the definitions in this Chapter and learn them completely after one hour of study.Two years later, you relearn them in 45 minutes.This difference of 15 minutes (or 25 percent retention)would be considered your __________ score.

Researchers have found that which of the following underlies expertise in many fields?

As new long-term memories are stored, older memories are often updated, changed, lost, or revised through

Which of the following statements would be considered good advice to improve memory for your college studies?

Regarding the availability of memories, which of the following statement is FALSE?