Exam 6: Learning

Godden and Baddeley (1975) conducted the classic "scuba diver" study of the encoding specificity principle. Baddeley is also known for his groundbreaking work on:

In rich False memory experiments, about _____% of participants remember events that never happened.

The similarity between the learning and retrieval contexts influences how well information will be remembered. This is known as the:

A stimulus that facilitates the recall of information from long-term memory is called a:

The hippocampus is more involved in encoding than in retrieval.

The phenomenon of _____ imagery is fairly similar to what people commonly call "photographic memory."

Suppose someone asks you, "On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being 'all nature' and 10 being 'all nurture,' where would you put dementia?" Based on information provided in the text, the BEST answer probably is:

Most people can hold about 10 to 12 items in short-term memory.

Echoic memory lasts longer than iconic memory.

"She did WHAT??" Sebastian's roommate exclaims as he relates an anecdote about a mutual friend. Sebastian's roommate processes the story using _____ memory.

Bruce watches a new television program with enthusiasm. He then watches a second, similar program. Bruce later finds it difficult to remember the details of the first program; he finds that details about the second program keep intruding. What has probably occurred?

About 35% of girls living in the United States experience childhood sexual abuse.

Carmen is engaged in elaborative rehearsal when she repeats an address over and over to herself before writing it down.

One psychologist associated with the view that memory is reconstructive is:

Preserving information is to accessing information as _____ is to _____.

In the retrieval phase of Godden and Baddeley's (1975) "scuba diver" study of the encoding specificity principle, participants were asked to supply all the words they could remember from the encoding condition. This was a _____ measure of memory.

More than 10 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease.

The term "engram" is generally discouraged by psychologists studying memory. Why might this be?

Texting while driving increases the likelihood of an accident by a factor of:

Explicit memory is to implicit memory as automatic processing is to effortful processing.