Exam 7: Memory

Benton is filling out an application for a mortgage. On the application, Benton is asked to give his former address. To Benton's surprise, he cannot recall his last address. The only address that comes to mind is his current one. Benton appears to be experiencing ____.

The serial position curve shows that when attempting to recall a list of items immediately after being exposed to them, ____.

You are explaining the three-stages model of memory to your friend. What would you call the first stage of memory?

Computer processing ultimately fails as an analogy for the human mind because ____.

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

Your knowledge of animals is most likely stored in your long-term memory in the form of a ____.

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

The encoding function of memory refers to ____.

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

What is an example of the use of implicit memory?

Which of the following is NOT a way that short-term memory can be encoded?

Recall the case of H.M. as described in your text. With his hippocampus removed, H.M. was ____.

Typing information into a computer is most analogous to the ____ of memory traces in humans.

Which model of memory best accounts for the fact that in reading this question, you must access the meaning of these words even before you store them in short-term memory?

An important difference between computers and the human mind is the mind's ability to ____.

A current controversy surrounding episodic memory and semantic memory is whether they are ____.

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

Which statement is TRUE regarding sensory memory?

If you remember what you did last Friday night, you are remembering a(n) ____.

Which statement is most accurate about maintenance rehearsal?