Exam 6: Memory

Using the acronym OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism)to remember the factors of the five factor model of personality is an example of

Shana cannot remember anything about the months prior to the plane crash she was in, nor can she remember anything about the accident itself. Shana is experiencing __________ amnesia.

You decide that instead of writing down your grocery list, you want to try out one of the mnemonic strategies you read about in your textbook. To that end, you try to associate each item on the list with a different room in your house. Which mnemonic strategy is this?

Max's mother tells him she needs laundry detergent, bread, milk, crackers, cola, tortillas, eggs, and green beans. She tells him to write it down so he won't forget, but he insists he doesn't need to. When he gets home from the store he has the laundry detergent, bread, milk, crackers, and cola but apologizes because he forgot the other things she needed. Max's memory of the grocery list illustrates

Marco was presented with a long list of words. He was then asked to try to remember as many as he could. If he remembers the last word, he experienced a __________ effect, which supports the existence of __________ memory.

Arthur saw a man vandalizing an ATM at the local bank. Police ask him to look at a line-up and try to identify the man he saw. Arthur is being asked to engage which type of memory retrieval process?

When Frances went to work this morning, she checked her voice mail. Her boss had left her a message outlining twenty-six tasks she needed to complete. Unfortunately, the message was accidentally deleted after Frances listened to it once. Because she did not write down the tasks as she listened to the message, how many of the tasks will Frances most likely remember?

According to the information-processing model of memory, if a person completely loses the ability for __________ memory, which is the first level of memory storage, the person will not be able to form any memories of any kind.

Jammin' Jamie, a disc jockey for a local radio station, plays requests that listeners phone in between 11 a.m. and noon. There are lots of requests, and Jamie usually forgets all but the last few requests. This pattern is an example of the __________ effect.

According to Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve, you should review your lecture notes within the first __________ after class.

Which is not a type of memory that is proposed by the information-processing model?

The magic number for the capacity of short-term memory seems to be __________, but this can be increased by using __________.

Damon has an average memory, and he is trying to keep a seven-digit phone number in his short-term memory. This number is likely to be

You are driving down the street when you see a billboard displaying a phone number for a service you need. You keep repeating the number so you won't forget it until you get home, where you can write it down. You do this to prevent the process of __________ from causing you to forget the number.

The ________ effect is likely facilitated by the fact that items presented early in a list of data have time to be rehearsed so that they are effectively transferred to long-term memory.

Assuming that the students below studied only at the times described and that all other things (intelligence, motivation, and previous knowledge of psychology)are equal, who is most likely to do the best on this exam?

Alexis is in a courtroom as an eyewitness to a crime. Alexis

Felicia is a witness in a traffic accident court case. When asked by the attorney to describe what she witnessed, Felicia tells her perspective as she saw it unfold. Felicia's memories of the accident are considered __________ memories because she was intentionally trying to access the memories that were needed.

In an experiment, participants were shown ambiguous pictures and then given a label for them. Later they were asked to draw the pictures they had been shown, and their drawings tended to more closely resemble the labels given by the experimenter than the original pictures. This is an example of __________ altering memory.

Counterfeiters depend on the fact that people's long-term memory often does not contain specific details but only general meanings. They are relying on the gaps that occur in memory when people