Exam 8: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior

A schema is:

Sometimes we are prone to judge an individual based on our perception of his or her match to the category of people he or she most closely resembles; that is,we fall prey to the __________ heuristic.

Which of the following describes implicit memory

The conscious repetition of information to ensure its survival in short-term memory is termed ________ rehearsal.

Describe how the availability and representativeness heuristics and the confirmation bias may contribute to prejudice and discrimination.Provide as thoughtful an answer as you can

Which of the following statements BEST describes the forgetting function that Ebbinghaus discovered

Sensory memory can hold only a small amount of information.

Which of the following statements best expresses the relationship,if any,between elaborative encoding and the self-reference effect

When we look up a number in the phone book,close the book,and then begin to dial the number,we are relying on

Leigh wakes up in a hospital.She remembers careening into a collision,but nothing thereafter.Leigh is experiencing ______ amnesia.

Which of the memory measures described in your text might be used to assess implicit memory

"It's like riding a bike; once you know how,you don't forget." This adage suggests that procedural memories do not require conscious attempts at recall; that is,procedural memories are often ________.

The study of sensory memory is associated with:

A prototype is:

Almost everybody has had the feeling of knowing the answer to a question,but not being quite able to say it.This is called the "tip-of the-tongue" phenomenon,and is a failure of __________.

Before going home,Dr.Rosen tries to flesh out his patient notes.He can remember the first and last sessions of the day,but his memory of the middle ones is a bit fuzzy.Dr.Rosen's memory reflects the ________ effect.

The primacy effect refers to the fact that

Experts in a given area are less likely to be overconfident in their judgments than are novices.

Flashbulb memories remain accurate long after the original event.

When using a software package's new interface,you keep trying to use the same menus and make the same selections that worked so well in the old version of the interface.You are experiencing _______ interference.