Exam 6: Memory

Information entered into short-term memory fades quickly unless it is

Over-learning does not cause interference or confusion, as we may claim when we study too much.

Over-learning makes material more resistant to interference.

There are two types of declarative memory-episodic memory and ________ memory.

H.M.'s damaged hippocampus apparently does not affect his ability to form new nondeclarative memories.

Which of the following is not a memory system in the Atkinson and Shiffrin model?

When material must be recalled in a specific order, which of the following types of recall is required?

What is the memory that is not a replica of an event, but one that has been pieced together from a few highlights and uses information that may or may not be accurate?

When each new, incoming item pushes an existing item out of short-term memory, __________ has occurred.

Which of the following proposed that memory works like a tape recorder and that memories are stored permanently within the brain?

H.M. has been unable to store new information in long-term memory since his surgery in 1953. H.M. has a profound case of

Who among the following said, "The past is being continually remade, reconstructed in the interest of the present"?

In a study, subjects either stayed awake or went to sleep immediately after memorizing a list of nonsense syllables. From what you've learned in your text, you would expect results to show that forgetting was

The levels-of-processing model states that the ability to recall memories depends on

The decay theory may be a cause of forgetting for

According to the text, what portion of the information present in sensory memory is transferred to short-term memory?

Research suggests that merely imagining experiences can lead people to believe that those experiences actually happened to them?

What early memory researcher found that, rather than accurately recalling information detail by detail, people often reconstruct and systematically distort facts to make them more consistent with past experiences?

Which of the following refers to the processes through which information is retained in memory?

Your short-term memory is most useful in recalling which words in a long list?