Exam 9: Memory

Studying by engaging in a series of self-tests helps most with this process of memory.

__________memory occurs when retrieval of a memory is enhanced in context that were similar to the one that existed when the memory was encoded

The human storage and retrieval of memories is different from storage of data on a computer in that computers

The most commonly used example of this memory phenomenon is what happens when you ask a friend for their phone number, but you have no pen to write it down.

Although different theorists define this memory concept in different ways, it is probably best to think of it as what happens in short-term memory when information is manipulated or processed.

Short-term memory is more likely to encode material semantically and has an unlimited capacity

Your ability to ride a bike, drive a car, or anything else depends on this implicit memory store.

Which of the following is NOT a way that long-term memories are encoded?

Memories are constructed at the point of retrieval rather than played back

Material is most likely to be recalled at a later date if it has been encoded for LTM during

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

With the exception of mildly depressed individuals, people remember more events associated with

This memory phenomenon is the reason that we can easily remember sentences composed of 20 words, but cannot remember 20 unrelated words in order.

In cases of amnesia, this type of memory is usually affected more profoundly than anything else

A rich false memory is vivid but false memory containing rich detail and emotional content

Memory _________refers to the amount of information that can be held in a memory store at any one time.

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.

Most people have a bias towards remembering happy events

This memory process includes the phenomena of recall and recognition.

The misinformation effect takes place when a person exposed to correct information about an event they have experienced later recall the event in a distorted manner by incorporating the correct information