Exam 7: A: Human Memory

LeAnn had her purse snatched as she walked out to her car.The police who are investigating the crime ask LeAnn to try to pick the purse-snatcher out of a line-up of eight suspects.What type of task are the police using

Corbin studies for three hours straight on the night before the exam.What technique is Corbin using

Jade rearranges the letters HI TRE DBA T into "hit red bat" in order to remember them more easily.Which technique is this an example of

Which type of memory code emphasizes the meaning of verbal input

What best explains the fact that the recall of eyewitnesses can be distorted by information introduced after the event by police officers and attorneys

What is the retention interval in studies of forgetting

Even if you are not attending to a particular conversation between two people,you may notice if one of the people says your name.What is the term for this type of occurrence

What has been demonstrated by researchers who investigated the accuracy of flashbulb memories following the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001

Dave is thrown from his motorcycle and suffers a severe blow to the head,resulting in loss of memory for events that occurred before the accident.What is this loss called

Your memory for the material on this test may be influenced by the amount of attention you paid to it,the level at which you processed it,and how you organized it.Which of your text's unifying themes does this illustrate

Imagine you complete a computer-programming course but never have a chance to use the programming language once the course is over.What pattern of forgetting should you expect,based on the research results reported by Ebbinghaus

Which statement about memory is proposed by dual-coding theory

How would you study if you were using massed practice

What is the term for the process of remembering

Archie attended his high school graduation over 20 years ago.He is now trying to recall as much as possible about the graduation ceremonies.What would be the best retrieval cue

Cindy is watching her little sister as she skips rope.As long as the rope is turning,all Cindy can see is a blur of colour.She can make out only the shape of the skipping rope when her sister stops skipping.What accounts for the "blurred" image that Cindy sees while the rope is moving

Which of the following is proposed by early-selection theories of attention

What is procedural memory

What do connectionist models of memory tend to be based on

What causes pseudoforgetting