Exam 10: Memory

Mr. Ward is finding that his grade-3 students often misspell the words "receive," "piece," and "neighbour." He teaches them the mnemonic, "I before E, except after C, or when sounded like A, as in neighbour or weigh." Mr. Ward is hoping that when his students write stories, they will:

Most students are able to encode the material in a textbook in the same way that they encode where they sit in the classroom.

The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material is called recognition.

________ provide(s) the mental equivalent of a scratch pad.

An important aspect of memory is that it is:

The ________ theory of forgetting proposes that memory fades with time and lack of use.

Déjà vu occurs when:

Conscious, intentional recollection of an event is called explicit memory.

Jean Piaget remembered a kidnapping attempt that occurred when he was a two-year-old. He was sitting in his pram and his nurse defended him until a police officer with a short cloak and a white baton chased the kidnapper away. It wasn't until Piaget was 15 years old that the nurse confessed that she had made up the entire incident! What does Piaget's experience reveal about autobiographical memories and reconstructing the past?

________ is an especially vivid memory of an emotional event.

Human beings have been called storytelling animals, and:

Declarative memories come in two varieties. Name each type and give an example of each from your own declarative memory.

Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened is ________.

In the "three-box model of memory," which memory system holds information for a very short period of time until it can be processed further?

Sensory memory has a large capacity.

Most, though not all, researchers believe that ________ is the process underlying many, if not all, forms of learning and memory.

The T-O-T phenomena can best be explained by the ________ theory of forgetting.

Research suggests that the best way to encourage truthful testimony by children is to:

In the 1930s, the research of British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett provided evidence to support the view that memory is like:

In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the capacity of short-term memory to be the magical number: