Exam 9: The Knowing Mind Memory

The reduction in ability to retrieve rarely used information over time is called ____.

Which of the following requires the skills of the central executive?

According to your textbook

Which of the following is a non-declarative memory?

Ella is a participant in a study using the lexical decision task technique.To which pair of real or nonreal words would she likely have the fastest response time?

A graph of the serial position effect,where the likelihood of recall of an item is plotted as a function of the item's position in a list during presentation,takes the shape of a(n)____.

What is interference and what role does it play in the formation of memories? Discuss examples of memory loss due to interference.

Mary is visiting the beach close to her childhood home.Which of the following best describes her memories of childhood summers?

The "magic number 7 plus or minus 2" was first identified by psychologist ____.

The four components of working memory proposed by Baddeley et al.are called the central executive,the episodic buffer,the visuospatial sketch pad,and the ____ loop.

Jenna wants to use the vending machine during her lunch break.She reaches to select a quarter from the different sizes of change she is carrying in her pocket.This touch-based sensory input from the different sized coins in her pocket is first translated into ____.

Fred is studying vocabulary for his biomedical class while sitting in a busy coffee shop.Fred's recall of the material will likely be best while ____.

Your text discusses recovered memories of childhood abuse.In the absence of proof,the authors recommend ____.

Which of the following techniques would be most helpful to Jane while studying for her Women's American Literature exam?

Henry must study for three finals and write a term paper in six days.He has decided to devote 15 hours of preparation time to his History of Modern China exam.What would be the best allocation of his time?

When Frederic Bartlett's study participants recalled the story he had read to them 20 hours earlier,they ____.

Tom often smokes while studying in his apartment.Of course,he cannot smoke during his exams.This may make retrieval of the material more difficult because of ____.

The final stage of the Atkinson-Shiffrin model refers to the location of permanent memories.This is called ____ memory.

Jake,a 24-year-old Caucasian man,was caught in a stolen car and taken into the police station for identification.Which of the following lineups would be the fairest for Jake?

Marietta has memorized the capital cities of all 50 states.This is an example of ____ memory.