Exam 7: Memory

 The psychologist most associated with false memories is ____. 

 Which statement is TRUE of procedural memories? 

 The last items in a long list of items to be remembered are usually remembered better than items in the middle of the list.This is referred to as the ____. 

 The three major processes of memory are ____. 

 Frika is washing dishes and she automatically puts the forks in the side drawer,despite the fact that she moved the forks to another drawer last week.Frika's error is most likely the result of ____ memory. 

 Explain the difference between proactive and retroactive interference.

 The greatest difference between computers and the human mind is the mind's ability to ____. 

 Sigmund Freud's theory of forgetting is called ____. 

 If you remember how to tie your shoes,you are specifically using a(n)____ memory. 

 The phrase "7 ± 2 bits" describes the ____. 

 The three stages model proposes that memory stages operate in a ____ fashion. 

 In the 1950s,George Miller showed that the capacity of short-term memory is ____. 

 When listening to your favorite music at the gym,which component of working memory is responsible for processing the sound of the music? 

 Sometimes long-term memory storage has been described as creating a path such as in a field of grass.  Using the field analogy,forgetting would occur when the path begins to disappear due to lack of use.  This describes the ____ theory of forgetting. 

 Imagine that you are a subject in a study in which you are asked to remember a sequence of 20 letters of the alphabet dictated to you at the rate of one letter every two seconds.Immediately after the dictation,you are asked to recall the original sequence of letters.Most likely the researcher is studying what aspect of memory? 

 If you were trying to store a list of single digit numbers in your short-term memory,about how many should you be able to store on average? 

 Procedural memory is linked to the ____. 

 Which of these types of memory is most affected by normal aging? 

 Cue-dependent forgetting is memory retrieval failure that is part of the ____. 

 Bits of information stored in our memory are called ____.