Exam 6: Learning

According to the levels of processing framework, which of the following students should retrieve information more successfully on classroom tests?

Information may last for _____ seconds in sensory memory, and the capacity of sensory memory is _____.

The frontal lobe is to _____ memory as the temporal lobe is to _____ memory.

Jerry is at a party. He is introduced to three different people in the span of a moment. Later, he is approached by the first person he met and cannot remember her name. Which explanation is MOST likely the source of Jerry's difficulty?

Mei lives in Shanghai. Sandy lives in Salt Lake City. Based on the text's discussion, which statement regarding the life memories of the two women is MOST likely to be True?

Grouping pieces of information together to expand the capacity of short-term memory is called:

In one study, Bowman et al. (2010) found that college students holding IM conversations while studying a textbook passage:

The way that Loftus and Palmer (1974) asked participants about the cars in a filmed accident had little effect on participants' estimates of the vehicles' speeds.

Conditioned responses are one example of implicit memory.

The hippocampus plays a role in memory consolidation. It is probably MOST accurate to say that the hippocampus is more involved in _____ than in _____.

Based on the textbook's discussion, memory competitors appear to differ from other people mainly in their:

Malik suffers from cerebellar damage; his episodic memory may be impaired as a result.

Which statement BEST describes the forgetting function that Ebbinghaus discovered?

Destiny is suffering from anterograde amnesia when she fails to remember anything that occurred immediately following a head injury.

Chad is puzzling over a difficult question on a multiple-choice sociology test. He re-reads the question, scans the options beneath the question, and glances at other questions on the test. Most likely, Chad is looking for:

"Cramming" is another name for massed practice.

The duration of short-term memory is about:

Both iconic and echoic memory are highly accurate.

Working memory is to implicit memory as prefrontal cortex is to the cerebellum.

The phonological loop allows memory of approximately 2 seconds of verbal material without actively repeating it.