Exam 8: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior

Which of the following best describes the results of Ebbinghaus's work on forgetting

George Sperling conducted a study in which he varied the interval between the presentation of a letter matrix and an auditory recall cue.Sperling measured the proportion of letters participants could recall from the matrix.Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding this study

Tommy is repeating a series of digits in the order in which he heard an experimenter read them.The experimenter is testing the capacity of Tommy's _______ memory.Tommy should be able to repeat about _________ digits correctly.

Grouping pieces of information together to expand the effective capacity of short-term memory is termed _________.

There is little relationship between an eyewitness' accuracy and his or her confidence.

In ________ interference,information learned earlier disrupts the recall of information learned more recently; in _________ interference,recently learned information disrupts the recall of information learned earlier.

Relearning measures allow the assessment of both implicit and explicit memory.

Nana is taking a Spanish final at the end of the spring semester.The problem is,the French vocabulary she learned the semester before keeps getting in the way,causing her to forget Spanish words.Nana is experiencing ________ interference.

It is 10:15 a.m. on a mid-semester Wednesday. Three sections of introductory psychology are meeting on the second floor of Old Main. In Room 201, Ms. Romero is describing implicit memory. Across the hall in 204, Dr. Darby's class is considering the differences between sensory and short-term memory. Finally, in Old Main 209, Dr. Eastwood is writing the terms 'encoding,' 'storage,' and 'retrieval' on the whiteboard. Ms. Romero is discussing memory ______. Dr. Darby's class is examining memory ________. Dr Eastwood is describing memory _________.

"Discuss several factors that contributed to the economic collapse of late 2008," reads a question on the midterm in an Economics course.Such a question is a ________ test of _______ memory.

Mothers are necessarily female.Being female is thus a _________ feature of the category 'mother.'

Process is to structure as __________ memory is to _________ memory.

Information may last for _______ seconds in sensory memory; the capacity of sensory memory is _______.

A researcher presents participants with a list of words.She asks the participants to count the letters in the words in Group 1,to come up with rhymes for the words in Group 2,and to produce synonyms for the words in Group 3.Later,she tests the participants' memory for all of the words.From best to worst,which pattern correctly indicates how well words in each group will be remembered

I was a second-semester freshman.I was eating French fries in the college cafeteria when my friend Liz came up.She was wearing that plaid coat with her yellow skirt,along with that moss-green embroidered bag,the one with a Grecian urn embroidered on it.She told me the shuttle blew up.This is my _________ memory of the 1986 Challenger disaster.

Clarice presses a key on her computer to save a document she has been editing.A file is then created on her computer's hard drive.The computer's action is most similar to the memory activity of _________.The computer's hard drive is similar to _________ memory in the three-stage memory model.

Ron receives some stock tips when he's slightly 'buzzed' at an office party.Based on the notion of state-dependent memory,what might you predict regarding the likelihood that Ron will recall the tips the following week

Psychologists use the term ______ memory to refer to "photographic" memory.

After material is learned,little is forgotten at first,but then the rate of forgetting speeds up.

Which of the following is true about recognition memory