Exam 6: Memory

Your memory of the moment you heard about the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 would be most appropriately termed a(n) __________ memory.

One problem with relying on eidetic imagery to study for tests is that __________.

Our memories of general knowledge such as the meanings of words or the dates of famous historical events are stored in __________ memory.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called __________.

Sung-Mi is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the __________ effect.

Which technique is most widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?

__________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses, puts it into a usable form, organizes and alters information as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.

According to primacy and recency effects, when reading the chapters of a textbook, you are most likely to forget the information __________.

False positives occur when a person incorrectly "matches" a stimulus not in memory with one in memory that is just similar enough to lead the person to make a false identification. One major problem with eyewitness testimony is that __________.

A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime. Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully?

As memories get older, they are most likely to __________.

What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

The ability to remember where you were and what you were doing when the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, is an example of __________.

Raven has just finished learning a list of nonsense words given to her by her psychology instructor as part of a class activity. She had 100 percent recall at the end of class. According to Ebbinghaus's curve of forgetting, how quickly will Raven likely forget about 40 percent of the information she has just learned?

Which of the following is most likely to be a flashbulb memory for most people?

Flashbulb memories __________.

Which of the following statements is TRUE of retrieval cues?

The BEST place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in __________.

Evidence suggests that short-term memories are stored in the prefrontal and temporal lobes of the cortex.