Exam 6: Memory

Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for plausible false events than for implausible ones.

Research has shown that short-term memory lasts about 12 to 30 seconds without:

The phrase every good boy deserves fudge is used as a/an __________ to remember the treble clef line notes by music students.

Short-term memory is where information is held before conscious use of the material and is unlimited in capacity.

_____________ is retention of memory for some period of time.

In the famous case of H.M.,after having part of his brain removed,he could no longer:

People with dementia typically have a memory problem similar to:

Short-term memory can hold about 12 plus or minus 2 bits of information.

The internet,with its series of links from one site to many others,is a good analogy for the organization of:

Why did Hermann Ebbinghaus use nonsense syllables as stimuli in his memory research?

The statement neurons that fire together,wire together best represents the research findings and physiological theories of memory associated with _______________ work.

Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone.He asks his partner to read him his credit card number.However,when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line,he can't remember all the numbers.Jamal is coming up against:

The duration of iconic memory is _______ than echoic memory,but its capacity is probably ________.

In the levels-of-processing model of memory,information that forms the strongest memories is processed according to the:

Which of the following examples represents the shallowest processing as described by Craik and Lockhart?

You are invited to take part in a study by a researcher trying to replicate the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus.What might this researcher ask you to do?

A psychologist asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher.Surprisingly,the majority of people are able to correctly do this and comment,"Gee whiz,I haven't thought about that person in years!" Their ability to recall this information poses a challenge to which "theory of forgetting?"

According to Ebbinghaus's curve of forgetting research,the greatest amount of forgetting occurs:

Katherine is trying to hold the names of the students she just met in her psychology class in short-term memory.According to studies,these short-term memories will be stored in which part of the brain?

The only time selective attention is not working at its peak is: