Exam 7: Memory

Anterograde amnesia is the inability to _____ after an injury.

Ebbinghaus found that he could remember _____ percent of a list of nonsense syllables an hour after learning the list perfectly, _____ percent a day later, and _____ percent a week later.

Which of the following is true?

Nanette highlights the margin-definition of terms in her psychology textbook; Nathan thinks about how each term applies to his own life or to other concepts in the chapter. Nathan is more likely to recall and use the terms better on an essay exam because _____.

Which of the following statements about culture and memory is ACCURATE?

Students who study in long, unbroken intervals are engaged in _____, and are likely to perform _____ on a test of what they learned.

_____ refers to the stage of memory in which a relatively exact image of a sensory experience is held briefly until it can be further processed.

The tendency to remember previous sad events when feeling sad in the present is an example of _____ memory.

Loftus & Palmer (1974) showed a video to their participants and included misinformation following the video. Which of the following would you expect?

Which of the following supports the idea that elaborative rehearsal leads to better recall than maintenance rehearsal?

To measure Anita's retention of the poems she learned 15 years ago, the time it took her to review, recall, and recite the poetry was recorded. This is an example of _____.

The process that changes the brain in a fixed and stable way that establishes events in long-term memory is called ______.

The long-lasting increase in neural excitability during learning is called _____.