Exam 8: Extension A: Memory

Knowing which psychologist founded which school of thought illustrates _____ memory.

Which of the following is NOT a commonly used test of memory?

Information is remembered, without explicit cues or stimuli, and often verbatim when _____ is used to test memory.

Naming the seven dwarfs with no hints or clues is what kind of memory task?

_____memory is a subpart of declarative memory that records personal experiences that are linked with specific times and places.

When we fill in the gaps in memory with logic, guessing, or new information, we are using

The two subcategories of declarative memory are

Fill-in-the-blank questions measure _____, while multiple choice questions measure _____.

_____ memories are like looking in an encyclopedia, while _____ memories are like looking into your own personal photo album.

Chunking and maintenance rehearsal are especially important for the improvement of _____ efficiency.

The process of holding information in memory is referred to as

Earlier in the day, you ate breakfast at The Pine Tree Cafe.You are trying to tell a friend about this restaurant, but you can't quite recall the name.You will most likely call the restaurant

George Miller theorized that the average number of "bits" of information that short-term memory can usually handle is _____, while Nelson Cowan believes that STM may actually hold only _____ items, unless some chunking has occurred.

In Hannigan and Reinitz's (2001) study, subjects were shown a photograph of a woman at a grocery store passing a pile of oranges on the floor.Two days later, they were shown a photograph of a woman pulling an orange from the bottom of a stack of oranges._____ of the students were sure that they had seen that photograph two days earlier when, in reality, they had not been shown that photograph.

An icon is a fleeting visual image that persists for about _____ second(s), while an echo is a brief flurry of activity in the auditory system that lasts for up to _____ seconds.

As your friend reads her shopping list to you in her apartment, you are aware that the radio is playing in the background.The fact that you remember what your friend said and not what the announcer on the radio said can be attributed to

The image that persists for about one-half second after being seen is an

In a classic "tip-of-the-tongue" experiment, student, who drew a blank and couldn't name a defined word, were

The major problem with using hypnosis in police work is

Which of the following skills would an amnesia patient be the most likely to learn?