Exam 6: Learning

Which statement BEST describes the results of Ebbinghaus's work on forgetting?

The inability to retrieve past memories is called _____ amnesia. The inability to develop new memories is called _____ amnesia.

Storage is the first step in the memory process.

An "oldie" playing on the radio reminds Donald of events that occurred when the song was current. For Donald, the song is acting as a(n):

Based on the _____ effect, _____ practice leads to better learning than _____ practice does.

How do Chinese participants' life memories differ from those of Americans, and why?

Generally speaking, learning strengthens the connections among neurons.

George Sperling conducted experiments in which participants were first exposed briefly to a letter matrix; after a varying interval, an auditory tone cued participants to report the letters contained in a specific row of the matrix. The results indicated that iconic memory accurately codes the spatial location of stimuli and that the information in iconic memory decays after approximately 1 second. Might sensory memory also code other physical stimulus characteristics, such as color or size? Might it code the categorical identity of stimuli, such as whether the stimuli are letters or numbers, upper- or lower-case letters, consonants or vowels, and so on? Does such information decay more rapidly or more slowly from sensory memory than does spatial location information? Describe an original experiment modeled on Sperling's studies that might answer one of these questions. State your hypothesis and identify the pattern of results that might occur.

Aplysia is a(n):

One of Ebbinghaus's key _____ variables was a _____ score.

Preliminary evidence suggests that levels of physical and mental activity are both _____ correlated with the severity of the cognitive decline seen in Alzheimer's disease.

Short-term memory is the first stage in the information-processing model of memory.

Dr. Handy is a psychologist who studies how the brain collects, stores, and retrieves information for later use. Which is the BEST term for Dr. Handy's area of interest?

When Braden types data into a spreadsheet he will save on his laptop's hard drive, his action is analogous to the memory process of encoding.

Working memory is MOST nearly analogous to:

In George Sperling's procedure, whole report performance exceeded partial report performance.

Julaine and Trystan are taking a political science midterm. The test covers five chapters. Yesterday, Julaine studied all 5 chapters in an 8-hour marathon session. Trystan studied the material over a 5-day period, for just over 90 minutes each day. All else being equal, which student is likely to perform best on the test, and why?

Using the partial report technique, George Sperling estimated that sensory memory stored at least _____% of the letters in a briefly-flashed array.

The levels of processing framework:

Recall tests are usually more difficult than are recognition tests.