Exam 6: Memory

You are taking both a Spanish and a French course this semester.As you study the vocabulary words for your French test,you realize that the French words are disrupting the memory of the Spanish vocabulary words you studied last week.This is an example of _____.

According to Hermann Ebbinghaus,_____.

Vince suffered serious brain injury to his cerebellum in a motorcycle accident.What effect will this have on Vince's life?

Information can last up to a lifetime in _____.

Elaine is writing a paper about reactions to the tragedy that occurred at the Twin Towers on September 11,2001.She interviews ten of her classmates and asks them to remember that day.She is surprised to learn that nearly all of the students she interviewed offer very detailed,vivid accounts of where they were and what they were doing when they first learned of the terrorist attacks.Elaine has discovered that most of her classmates have _____ of September 11,2001.

According to the serial position effect,if you are a waiter trying to remember all the orders for a table of 7,you should pay particular attention to the _____ orders,because these are the ones you are most likely to forget.

Describe Baddeley's view of the three components of working memory.

The type of effortful retrieval associated with a person's feeling that he or she knows something (say,a word or a name)but cannot quite pull it out of memory is known as _____.

According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin theory of memory,memory storage involves which of the following three systems?

Margaret fell down her basement stairs and suffered serious injury to her amygdala.What memory problems is she most likely to have now?

Having a better memory for items at the beginning of a list demonstrates the _____,whereas having a better memory for items at the end of a list demonstrates the _____.

Describe the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory.

Which of the following structures of memory is autobiographical?

George has just graduated from college and is going on his first big job interview.He has learned that there are 10 other applicants for the job.On account of information on the serial position effect that he learned in his psychology class,George asks to be either the first or the last candidate interviewed.Why?

A person's knowledge about the world is known as _____ memory.

According to Baddeley,the _____ is specialized to briefly store speech-based information about the sounds of language.

Attention,deep processing,elaboration,and the use of mental imagery are _____ processes.

Chunking involves _____.

People very quickly adapt to the procedures and behaviors appropriate at a birthday party.General knowledge of what to expect and how to behave at a birthday is called a(n)_____.

When asked to memorize the 15 letters,C I A C B S A B C F B I I R S,Mary reorganizes them into CIA,CBS,ABC,FBI,and IRS.Mary used the tactic of _____.