Exam 6: Memory

In a cross-cultural study investigating first memories, Chineseand Taiwanese college students usually reported first memories focusing on routine activities that they shared with members of their family or social group.

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the "visuospatial sketchpad":

Episodic memory is the category of long-term memory that includes the memory of facts, names, concepts, and other general knowledge.

Researchers found that for Chinese and Taiwanese respondents, early autobiographical memories tended to focuson:

The stage model of memory consists of three distinct stages:sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

Working memory is the third memory stage and is also called long-term memory.

During a Trivial Pursuit game, Seth was trying to think of the name of John Lennon's wife. "Yanni? Yo-yo? no, that's not it.I'm sure I'll think of …. Wait, I remember! It was Yoko Ono!That was John Lennon's wife!" This example illustrates:

Compared to Asian mothers, when engaging in sharedr eminiscing with their children, Western mothers tend to emphasize the child's:

According to the Enhancing Well-Being with Psychologysection on improving your memory:

"I could have sworn that I parked my Subaru in this row,"Jenna said with embarrassment as the airport parking vandriver drove down yet another row of parked cars. "It's okay,miss," the van driver reassured her, then added, "This happens all the time when people are rushing to catch a planeand they don't pay attention to the row signs." This is an everyday example of _____ due to _____.

Numerous studies have shown that exposure to misinformation after an event can distort the memories of eyewitnesses for the original event.

During a test of his short-term memory, Tommy was givenlists of items to remember. He found the task much easier if he grouped the items according to whether they were animals,plants, minerals, and so on. Tommy is using a memory aid called:

In order for chunking to work:

The famous Ebbinghaus forgetting curve:

Which of the following statements about the organization of information in long-term memory is FALSE?

One kind of script, called a schema, involves a typical sequence of actions and behaviors at a common event, such as eating in a restaurant or taking a plane trip.

Knowledge of how to perform different skills and actions is called _____ memory while knowledge of facts, concepts, andideas is called _____ memory.

Explicit memory is to _____ as implicit memory is to _____.

A classic experiment by psychologist George Sperling demonstrated that:

This psychologist is _____, who is best known _____.