Exam 6: Long-Term Memory: Influences on Retrieval

Jason conducts an experiment in which his participants are asked to study a list of 30 words. He finds that participants tend to recall the beginning of the list rather than the middle or end of the list. Which effect is he NOT showing support for?

_____ seems to be important in aiding the consolidation process.

Recent research has shown that taking practice quizzes is the most effective way to improve later retrieval because it provides retrieval practice. This effect is known as _____?

Processing the meaning of information is known as _____.

The more _____ encoding processes are, the better we remember.

Research has shown that the best way to study is _____.

Matching the circumstances of encoding and retrieval aids memory, and is known as _____?

_____ is a neural process by which memories are strengthened and more permanently stored in the brain

While studying for a psychology exam, you devise a poem about Piaget's stages of development to help you remember. This is an example of _____.

Jane spends 30 minutes a day for a month studying for her psychology final, whereas Anthony spends 6 hours the day before the exam studying. Anthony is more likely to do better than Jane on the exam.

The more active and effortful encoding processes are, the better we remember.

When memorizing a list of words, you are most likely to demonstrate _____ if you are tested on the list the next day.

Jodie insists on getting to class 2 hours before an exam so she has plenty of time to review her notes in the same classroom where she both learned the information and will be taking the exam. She must support _____.

You are presented with the following questions: 1) Is KITTEN in all capital letters? 2) Does KITTEN rhyme with MOOSE? 3) Is KITTEN a type of animal? Which would you most likely remember?

_____ are memory techniques that have been used by humans for thousands of years to remember information.

Your memory for everything you did yesterday is evidence of _____.

Lack of consolidation is a proposed way that we forget information.

The idea that the human mind tends to notice unusual[ok?] things is known as _____.

Dr. Johnson suspects that a patient he has recently seen may have a brain tumor. Which technique would be the best option for him to use in terms of confirming this suspicion?

The beginning of a word list is to _____ as the end of a word list is to _____.