Exam 7: Memory

The technique that uses the process of redintegration to improve the memory of eyewitnesses is called

Which of the following allows you to check your progress and identify ideas that need extra practice?

According to Ebbinghaus, forgetting is

Cory is a new teacher and has had very little experience writing multiple choice questions. So, on a question asking for the "father of psychology," he listed Wilhelm Wundt and three women psychologists as the possible responses. This type of question would most likely produce

In the "Card Magic" demonstration in your textbook, your card appeared to disappear due to which type of forgetting?

Eric Kandel found that learning altered the amount of

People prone to repression tend to

Feedback can be an especially important way of improving memory because it

In one classic experiment, the best memory score was earned by a group of students who spent 80 percent of their time reading and only 20 percent of their time reciting.

LaTanya is taking a discussion test in history and is having trouble remembering some of the important events she needs to discuss. So, she mentally puts herself back in the situation where she learned the information and tries to mentally recreate and relive the learning experience. She then writes everything that she can remember related to this learning experience, even trivial ideas, and also tries to recall the events in a different order and from different points of view. LaTanya is using a strategy that is very similar to a method used to improve eyewitness recall. This method is called the __________.

The tip-of-the-tongue state involves

To learn her psychology terms, Felesia just repeats the terms' definitions over and over again. This illustrates

Students often assume that because they can answer all the study questions once, they have sufficiently prepared for a test. This mistaken attitude overlooks the importance of which of the following for improving memory?

Many tragic cases of mistaken identity occur because the origins of a memory are misremembered, a phenomenon known as

In a classic "tip-of-the-tongue" experiment, students, who drew a blank and couldn't name a defined word, were

Taking the herb ginkgo biloba or large doses of vitamin E has been shown to significantly improve human memory.

Information is quickly "dumped" from short-term memory and forever lost unless you silently say the information over and over to yourself through a process known as

Which of the following refers to the tendency for new memories to impair the retrieval of older memories as well as the tendency for older memories to impair one's retrieval of new memories?

Which type of long-term memory can be fully expressed only as actions (or "know-how")and represents the most basic "automatic" elements of conditioning, learning, and memory?

You are trying to remember a short list of letters, numbers, or words after seeing or hearing them once. If it takes you more than four to six seconds to repeat the list, you will forget some of the items due to