Exam 7: Memory

 Based on Elizabeth Loftus's research on eyewitness memory,if you witnessed a car accident and then one day later read a detailed account of it in the newspaper,more than likely,your memory of the accident would ____. 

 Maintenance rehearsal is ____. 

 You are a consultant for a police department who has been hired to help train officers about accuracy of eyewitness testimony.What should you tell the officers about memory? 

 Top-down perceptual processing provides a good example of how ____. 

 Echoic memories are a type of ____. 

 What is the auditory processor in the multicomponent theory of working memory? 

 What is a good strategy for learning the material in a textbook? 

 When you take your next psychology exam,you will draw most heavily from your ____ memory. 

 What is the best explanation for women's superior performance on autobiographical memory tasks when compared to men? 

 In answering this exam question,you are engaged in a(n)____ memory task. 

 Mnemonic devices are a type of ____. 

 If we do not pay attention to sensory memories,they will most likely ____. 

 Proactive interference ____ and retroactive interference ____ as we get older. 

 Billy was in a car accident that damaged his hippocampus.Which of the following will likely NOT be true for Billy? 

 Explicit memory is ____. 

 The first step in getting information into memory is ____. 

 The two subordinate systems in the working memory model that are coordinated by the central executive component are the ____. 

 Sensory memories help us to ____. 

 Research on concussions in high school athletes suggests that ____. 

 Suppose that you are having a difficult time learning German because your previous exposure to French is getting in the way.What are you experiencing?