Exam 8: Memory

While misattribution can result in entirely false beliefs that one has experienced an event when one has not, it may also result in false beliefs about aspects of

____________________ plasticity involves increases or decreases in the strength of the connections between individual neurons.

This system of memory is fleeting and consists of two categories, the iconic and echoic stores.

____________________ involves processing new material in a way that is personally meaningful and which associates the new information with other information that already exists in LTM.

The sin of suggestibility is perhaps best demonstrated by Elizabeth Loftus's studies of this

The false memories that Ceci and colleagues elicited in the laboratory particularly affect this type of memory.

Though cases are rare, it is has been conclusively demonstrated that a traumatic memory such as sexual abuse or rape can be completely forgotten for many years and later recalled.

Which of the following best describes the consensus of most researchers about the recovered memory controversy?

This type of implicit memory refers to the way that a person's performance of certain tasks can improve without his or her awareness merely as a result of previous exposure to the task.

Any time you pay attention to a sight, sound, feeling, idea, or piece of information- either automatically or as a conscious decision-that information is transferred to long-term memory.

When you acquire a new cell phone number and learn it, it may soon become virtually impossible to remember the old one due to ____________________.

This memory phenomenon is a highly vivid and detailed remembrance of one's personal circumstances at the moment of learning of some shocking and unexpected event.

In trying to memorize new material, six daily 30-minute sessions equaling 3 hours in total will obtain worse results than one weekly 6-hour session.

The transience of memory is most likely the result of this aspect of forgetting.

The primacy and recency effects that result from recall tasks involving lists of words are evidence against

According to the levels of processing framework, semantic encoding represents a deeper level of processing than acoustic encoding.

This perspective of memory research views memory as a group of mechanisms and systems that encode, store, and retrieve information.

Supporters of the idea of distinct memory systems claim that this serial position effect is evidence of the existence of a separate short-term memory store.

If you make a list of items to buy at the grocery store but forget your list at home, you will probably be able to remember the first few items on the list as an example of this serial position effect.

All of the following memory accounts might qualify as flashbulb memories, EXCEPT: