Exam 7: Memory

Which psychologist found that short-term memory is limited to the "magic number" seven (plus or minus two)information bits?

Which of the following is an aid to memory that uses a familiar word or image to link two items?

A good reason for studying a wide range of subjects in high school and in college is the time and effort you will save because you will be able to do which of the following more quickly later on when you need this information?

Which of the following statements best characterizes the memory system?

Research shows that people who learned a list of words while in a happy mood recalled them better when they were again happy. People who learned the list while sad remembered best when they were sad. This illustrates

A memory that a person is aware of having and that can be consciously retrieved is a(n)__________ memory.

Ancient Greek orators had an interesting way to remember ideas in order when giving a speech, which involved

According to blood flow patterns, the basal ganglia and cerebellum appear to be where which type of memory is stored?

Suzie is using flash cards to study for her upcoming psychology test. She looks at the first card, moves it a few cards back, and then a little further back in the stack each time. Suzie is

When breaking long lists of information into sublists, it is important to make the middle sublists the shortest of all and to practice these middle sublists more due to the __________ effect.

Consolidation refers to the

Which of the following refers to summarizing aloud while you are learning?

If you study a poem until you can recite it without looking at it, you are exhibiting the measure of memory known as relearning.

According to the textbook, Alan Alda refused to eat a hard-boiled egg because Elizabeth Loftus suggested to him that his answers to a questionnaire revealed that he must have gotten sick after eating hard-boiled eggs at some time in his life. His refusal illustrates

If you cram for a psychology exam and then later the same night cram for a history exam, your memory for history will be less accurate because of

Knowing which psychologist founded which school of thought illustrates __________memory.

You have to memorize the following list of words: north, red, spring, east, autumn, yellow, summer, blue, west, winter, green, and south. It will be easier to remember these words if you arrange them into chunks, such as north-east-south-west (directions), spring-summer- autumn-winter (seasons), and red-yellow-green-blue (colors). You are using which strategy to improve your memory?

Which of the following is a subpart of declarative memory that records impersonal knowledge about the world and serves as a mental dictionary or encyclopedia of one's basic knowledge?

Brett was an eye witness to a crime, but he misidentifies the suspect in court because he saw the suspect's picture in the newspaper and not at the crime scene. This type of error occurs due to elaborative processing causing the origins of a memory to be misremembered, a situation referred to as __________ confusion.

In an experiment, it takes you one hour to memorize all the terms on a list. Two years later you relearn them in 45 minutes. The time difference of 15 minutes, or 25 percent (15 divided by 60 times 100), is called the