Exam 8: Memory

An organized knowledge structure, containing clusters of related facts, is referred to as:

Psychologists use the term ____________________to refer to the capacity to preserve and recover information.

An example of an implicit memory test is:

People tend to show a(n) ____________________ effect in memory, as they tend to remember items at the beginning of a list better than items in the middle or at the end of a list.

Angela was assigned code number 853271 by her bank when she first opened her account.Later, her bank changed its coding system, and Angela was assigned the new code number 469830.If Angela experienced retroactive interference when she was asked for her bank code number, you would predict that she will recall:

According to psychologists, episodic memories include:

One day after the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, Neisser and Harsch asked college students to describe how they first heard the news.Three years later they again asked the same students to recollect how they had heard about the explosion of the space shuttle.In their study, Neisser and Harsch found that:

Amad is outside one summer evening watching fireflies.As he watches, he finds that it almost appears as if the insects are spelling out letters as they fly.Based on what is known about the different memory systems, you should conclude that the firefly "trails" Amad sees are one example of:

Our knowledge about how to perform complex tasks is referred to as:

When we form connections between new information and information already in memory, we are utilizing an encoding technique that psychologists refer to as:

A patient with brain damage has lost the ability to process certain geometrical shapes.According to the working memory model, the patient probably has difficulty processing information in the:

How unique or different a memory record is from other things in memory is the memory record's:

Janai is currently 40 years old.When she was 7 years old, she saw her grandfather fall down the stairs after he had a stroke.At the time, she visited him in the hospital every day for the 6 months it took him to recover.Today, Janai has no memory of her grandfather, his stroke, or her visits to him in the hospital.According to Freud, Janai may be:

A patient with brain damage has lost the ability to process certain grammatical forms.According to the working memory model, the patient probably has difficulty processing information in the:

When studying, one of the most powerful ways to produce lasting long-term memories is:

In describing memory, psychologists refer to the momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli as:

Imagining a real-world pathway that is conceptual to remember, and using visual imagery to "place" information that is to be remembered along the pathway, is a mnemonic device known as:

The term ____________________ is used to refer to the circumstance when repetitions of to-be-remembered information are spaced out over time.

According to Sigmund Freud, ____________________ is a defense mechanism that causes one to have poor memory for distressing life events or facts.

Which of the following is FALSE of long-term memory?