Exam 7: Memory

If you park your car in a different place every day, you may forget where you parked your car due to

Susan has been using the new computer operating system for over six months. A friend who has an older version of the operating system calls Susan for help, since Susan used this older system for five years before getting the new one. As soon as Susan starts typing on her friend's computer, she realizes that she cannot remember specific details regarding this older operating system. Her inability to remember this older system is due to

In a recognition task, if the distractors are very similar to the correct item, one's memory for the correct item will tend to be poor.

Natasha is using an effective technique that will help her summarize the material she is studying, will force her to practice retrieving information, and will provide her with feedback on what she knows. Natasha is using

At first, Steve could remember seven digits. However, he practiced for 20 months, and ultimately, he was able to memorize approximately 80 digits. He was able to do this because he organized or recoded the lists of digits into meaningful groups containing three or four digits each. Steve was using the learned strategy known as __________.

The fact that people can often tell beforehand if they are likely to remember something is called the __________.

For most people, the space capacity for short-term memory is 12 items, plus or minus two.

Redintegration is the reason that one small stimulus, such as hearing an old song, can cause you to have vivid and detailed memories of your senior prom.

Your first psychology quiz consists of 20 fill-in-the-blank questions on the history of psychology. This test is measuring memory by

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.

Explain why recognition is usually superior to recall, how recognition is used by police departments, how various distracters can make recognition inaccurate, and how this inaccuracy can be minimized.

Which memory stage are we largely unaware of but which holds information just long enough for it to be moved to the second memory stage?

The part of the brain that acts as a sort of "switching station" between short-term and long-term memory and aids in the formation of new memories is the __________.

When breaking long lists of information into sublists, make the middle sublists the shortest of all due to

If you rehearse the Gettysburg Address until you have learned it to perfection, you can expect your memory for it to be

Ten days after taking a psychology exam, Michael took a second exam on the same material (without reviewing) and scored only half as high as he did on the original exam. If he were tested yet again ten days later without additional study, the curve of forgetting suggests his score would be about

In which method of measuring memory is a savings score used to demonstrate the retention of information?

If you are able to sing the lyrics to a familiar pop tune, you are exhibiting the measure of memory known as __________.

Activating implicit memories by providing partial information that has been previously linked with these memories is known as chunking.

On a multiple choice test, if only one choice looks like it could be correct among the other dissimilar distractors,