Exam 7: Memory

Summarize how you can use the following concepts to improve your study habits and exam scores: elaborative rehearsal, retrieval cues, and organization.

The fact that we tend to remember the items at the end of a list is referred to as ________.

Accessing stored memories and bringing them into short-term memory is called ________.

Describe how you can use the principles of organization and rehearsal to improve both short-term and long-term memory; illustrate your answer with examples.

According to the encoding specificity hypothesis, for the best retrieval of information, it would be best to study for your psychology final exam ________.

Which of the following is an example of episodic memory?

The name "Roy G. Biv" is one way to remember the colors of the light spectrum. This is an example of ________.

Long-term potentiation is a result of ________.

Which researchers are most closely associated with the levels of processing model?

When Eric calls his new girlfriend by his old girlfriend's name, this is an example of ________.

In which type of long-term memory would you find Little Albert's memory of being classically conditioned to fear a rat?

Describe the retrieval process, focusing on retrieval cues, recognition, recall, and the encoding specificity principle, illustrating each with a personal example.

A process of recycling information in short-term memory to keep it from fading away (or decaying) is called ________ rehearsal.

You commit the details of your high school graduation to memory, but later find out that your memory is not fully accurate concerning this event. You seem to remember very positive aspects of that evening that did not, in fact, happen. This is primarily due to the fact that memory is a(n) ________.

Sensory memory is small in its ________ but relatively large in its ________.

All of our conscious thinking takes place in ________.

One factor that may lead to long-term potentiation is an increase in ________.

Sensory memory for visual stimuli is referred to as ________.

Working and spatial memory are closely associated with the ________.

The fact that we tend to remember the items at the beginning of a list is referred to as ________.