Exam 8: Memory

The component of memory that retains incoming information just long enough for it to be recognized is known as

Your friend tells you about a great new restaurant at which she ate. When you hear the name, you recall seeing the restaurant and are fairly sure of the location. This memory is retrieved despite that fact that you were not trying to remember anything about the restaurant. The name and location of this restaurant were stored in the long-term memory via _____________ processing.

"Priming" refers to the activation of one concept by another and is associated with the concept of "spreading activation".

Which of the following is one of the factors that could possibly account for the substantial and rapid forgetting that occurred to Hermann Ebbinghaus in his work on forgetting?

Why do researchers refer to short-term memory as "working memory"?

Describe the serial position effect and its two separate components. Discuss the specific structural components of memory that are responsible for it.

According to Craik and colleagues at the University of Toronto, semantic encoding is a deeper level of processing than phonemic encoding, which itself is a deeper level of processing than is _______________ encoding.

The associative network model asserts that a node in a memory network consists of an idea, a word, or a concept, while the model that argues that a node is physical in nature and does not contain individual units of information is the ________________ model.

Yuriko is testifying in a court case. After she finishes recounting what she saw to the jury, the attorney asks her how certain she is that her testimony is accurate. She says that she is 99 percent sure. Haroun is also testifying, and when he has told his version of the story, the attorney asks him how sure he is that his memory is accurate. He says that he is 75 percent sure. Based solely on this information, the jury chooses to believe Yariko and not Haroun. Are they correct to do so?

Dual coding theory proposes that we encode information by using which types of codes?

Your friend Paulo was in a car crash and when you asked him what happened he could not remember anything immediately after the crash. Paulo is suffering from

Discuss the approach Ebbinghaus took to the study of forgetting. In your answer be sure to describe stimuli and methods he used and his classic finding.

The recency effect appears to be due to the early transfer of information into long-term memory.

Retroactive interference is said to occur when newly acquired material in memory interferes with the recall of ____________ material.

You have forgotten about some incident that occurred several years ago. It was very troubling to you. Rather than having amnesia, your psychoanalyst suggests that this is really a case of

Assume you have been asked to imagine a skier skiing quickly down a mountain. Your visual-spatial working memory would be responsible for storing and temporarily manipulating this image, while allocating the proper amount of attention to this task and allowing you to retrieve an image of a skier from your long-term memory and incorporate it into your current visualization would be a(n) _________________ process.

The cerebellum plays a critical role in the encoding of long-term declarative memories.

The term "boundary extension" refers to our tendency to remember scenes as being ______________ than they actually are. It is thought that this occurs because of ______________.

Sol is a 4-year-old boy who fell off his swing set and hit his head. He cannot remember what he was doing prior to his fall. Sol is suffering from

According to the three-component model of memory, the component with the shortest storage time is