Exam 5: Memory

Although Demonte has performed really well in his chemistry class thus far, he's nervous about his upcoming cumulative final exam because he's not sure how much he remembers from the beginning of the semester. While studying for this exam, though, Demonte finds that it is taking him much less time to understand the material than it did the first time around. Which memory process is Demonte experiencing?

Which activity relies mostly on procedural memory?

Which of the following is NOT commonly identified by psychologists as a type of memory mistake related to the misinformation effect?

The increased connectivity between simultaneously stimulated neurons that forms the biological basis of memory is called:

David is given a list of 20 items to remember. According to Miller's (1956) "magic number" of memory capacity, what will David MOST likely remember?

Harry rearranges the seemingly meaningless letters BTWLOLOMGIDK into BTW LOL OMG IDK to make the long string of letters easier for him to remember. In doing so, Harry is using effortful processing called:

Anterograde amnesia is the inability to:

Which occurrence is NOT an example of recognition?

Differentiate between retroactive interference and proactive interference. Provide an example of each as it relates to your own personal life.

A person who experiences an emotionally charged event and is particularly aroused by it is more likely to store that event as a(n) _____ than someone who is not sufficiently moved by it.

Based on findings from memory research, which student would you expect to MOST likely deliver the highest performance on an exam?

_____ is the inability to remember how you obtained a particular memory, but not the memory itself.

Discuss the often-overlooked influence of sleep on memory. What do researchers believe are the two primary functions related to memory that sleep serves? If a friend of yours is debating whether to pull an all-nighter before a test, what advice might you provide, given the research findings on sleep and memory?

Encoding is defined as:

Some early memory research found that most of us can hold seven plus or minus two items of information in our short-term memory. This concept is known as the:

A person relying on _____ is retrieving information from storage without any comparison to external information.

Your friend Lydia tells you the phone number of a nearby restaurant. You're easily able to remember the 7-digit number long enough to enter it into your phone and call. However, for a restaurant that is out of state, she gives you the number with area code, and you have trouble remembering it and making the call. Your inability to remember the 10-digit phone number is an example of:

When presented with a series of items, the tendency to remember the first and last items better than the items in the middle is called:

Learning the order of the musical notes on a scale by memorizing the sentence "Every good boy deserves fudge" reflects a variation on which type of mnemonic?

Ethan takes a high-level computer programming certification course and becomes quite skilled at creating unique computer applications as well as troubleshooting. For a couple years after taking the course, though, Ethan pursues a different career path and does not get the chance to do any computer programming. He eventually forgets what he learned from the course. Ethan's experience MOST reflects the process psychologists refer to as: