Exam 6: Memory

A recognition test requires one to __________.

Your mother tells you to dress for success at your interview because it's all about "first impressions." In other words, she is telling you that people often remember what they see first. This belief is in line with what element of memory?

Decay theory works well to explain forgetting in __________.

What are the components of the information-processing model in order?

Autumn studied the names of learning theorists for her psychology class, after which she began studying the names of political theorists for her political science class. Much to her frustration, she found that the names of the learning theorists were keeping her from being able to learn the names of the political theorists. What kind of forgetting does this example illustrate?

What is meant by a flashbulb memory? Describe its characteristics. Give an example that is well-known. Some psychologists are not impressed by these well-known examples of this phenomenon. What are some of the criticisms of the concept of flashbulb memory?

Your English instructor has given you an assignment to write down your favorite memory from when you were 12 months old. What might you tell him?

In the game show Jeopardy!, contestants are tested on general information. The type of memory used to answer these kinds of questions is __________ memory.

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information, this is called __________.

Information in short-term memory is retained __________.

What "magic number" did Miller find to be the capacity of short-term memory?

Which type of memory is involved in remembering the day your parents bought you a car?

In anterograde amnesia, memory for anything new becomes impossible, although old memories may still be retrievable.

Describe the memory trace decay theory of forgetting.

The hippocampus seems to be essential for __________.

Why did research participants in Sperling's experiment recall so few letters stored in sensory memory?

Maintenance rehearsal is defined as __________.

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means that __________.

Long ago, during the early days of television, when a television set was turned off it took a while for the last image that was on the screen to fade away. This phenomenon is most like __________ memory.

Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as __________ rehearsal.