Exam 7: Memory

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?

A person's memory of the psychology concept of motivation is an example of ____.

When research participants use their ____ memory, blood flow changes occur outside the hippocampus.

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

Your generalized knowledge structure, or schema, of what happens when you go to the dentist's office is an example of a ____.

One particular working memory model suggests that working memory has a central executive component and subordinate systems that process which of the following?

Saving the paper you just wrote to the hard drive of a computer is most analogous to the ____ of new memory traces.

Jill and David are arguing about who has the better memory, men or women. Jill says that women have better memories. David says that men do. Who is correct?

Maintenance rehearsal is ____.

When Elizabeth Loftus showed videotapes of car accidents and then asked viewers questions about what they saw, she found that ____.

Because our long-term memory uses schemas to store information, ____.

Which statement is TRUE regarding chunking?

When you are not paying attention to your teacher and then suddenly realize that something important may have been said, you are often able to hear what was just said by reflecting on your experience over the past couple of seconds. This is possible because of ____.

Your friend asks you if it is possible in the three-stages model of memory for memories to go directly from sensory memory to long-term memory. How should you answer?

If you did not have any episodic memory ability, you would not be able to remember ____.

If you look up a phone number to the local theater and are unable to write it down or rehearse it, how long do you have before this information fades from your short-term memory?

How do we transfer information from sensory memory to short-term memory?

Mnemonic devices are a type of ____.

Echoic memories are a type of ____.

Suppose you cannot remember the names of the teachers you had in junior high school because the teachers you have had since then are getting in the way. This is called ____.