Exam 8: 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

In this type of interference, a memory that one has formed in the past interferes with the retrieval of a new memory-particularly if the new information is in some way similar to the old.

This memory process includes the phenomena of recall and recognition.

The recency effect works because words presented in the middle of a list are "bumped out" of STM by the more recent words, but have not had enough time to be processed deeply enough to enter LTM.

All of the following are examples of episodic memories, EXCEPT:

Cases of amnesia that selectively target episodic memory, while leaving semantic memory functional, support the view that

This sin of memory is particularly apparent in the cases of people who experience traumatic events, and can often cause difficulties for the person.

Memory span refers to the fact that sensory memory has a(n)

These kinds of long-term memories are our autobiographical memories.

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

Drugs like Ritalin, Provigil, and Adderall are all derived from this psychoactive substance.

When you open a saved computer file you have retrieved an identical copy of what you have stored. The same is true in the case of memory retrieval.

This part of the multicomponent model of working memory holds visual information in short-term memory.

This retrieval phenomenon works when mood and other psychological states, including drug-induced changes in consciousness, act as retrieval cues.

By learning a series of nonsense syllables and repeatedly testing his memory for them, Hermann Ebbinghause demonstrated that most of the "action" in forgetting occurs quickly after the event. That effect is known as

When we recall something, but have no awareness that we are doing so, we are using

If you are in a memory experiment and you are asked to quickly repeat back to the experimenter a string of digits like 2,3,5,6,1,2,6, she is probably testing your

In studies of verbal memory, a unique U-shaped _________________curve exists when people's memories for lists of words are graphed.

Which of the following descriptions is likely stored as a schema in memory?

Mitchell (2006) exposed a group of university students in 1982 to a series of black-and-white line drawings for between 1 and 3 seconds each. Seventeen years later, he showed these participants small partial fragments of the drawings they had viewed, mixed in with fragments of drawings they had never seen. Because of this implicit memory effect, participants could name the items they had seen before more accurately than the fragments that were not previously seen years before.