Exam 8: Memory

The amount of information that can be retained in short-term memory is limited by the

In terms of memory, the title of a passage, essay, or book can function to

A story that links together items that you wish to remember is a type of mnemonic device known as a narrative.

When you were a child you probably learned a rhyme for remembering the alphabet. This was a technique that helped you with the __________ of this information: one of the basic cognitive processes of memory.

According to the levels of processing model, a subject could more easily recall the word 'watch' after processing which of the following statements.

Associating landmarks along a familiar path or route that you take to school with items or other information that you wish remember is an example of the peg-word mnemonic system.

The first experiments to study the duration of memory were conducted by

What kinds of information are stored in long-term memory?

Research suggests that episodic memories are stored in the __________ but are consolidated in the __________.

Patrick wrote out a shopping list then left it at home on the kitchen counter. Now, at the supermarket, the only items he can remember are the first two on the list. This is an example of

If you want to learn information, the best time to make it meaningful is __________ encoding it.

Distinguish proactive interference from retroactive interference.

When Connie wishes to remember something, especially a list of items, she associates each item with a specific landmark in her neighbourhood. Later, when she needs to recall the items, she simply pictures the landmark and the corresponding items. Connie's secret to remembering is to use the

The kind of memory in which records of personal events are stored is called

To prevent the subjects in their experiment from rehearsing information, Peterson and Peterson

Sal has six items on his grocery list. When he was at the grocery store, the other shoppers could hear him repeating "milk, juice, eggs, soap, chocolate, fruit"over and over again. Sal's behaviour is an example of __________ rehearsal.

If you remembered a list of items by associating each item with the rhyme "one is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree..."and so on, you would be using the

Memories of which we are unaware are called __________ memories.

Describe research investigating the consolidation hypothesis.

Distinguish between episodic and semantic memory and between explicit and implicit memory.