Exam 7: Memory

Certain clinical psychologists claim they can help their clients to recover repressed memories of early sexual abuse and other painful experiences. Other skeptical psychologists doubt this claim because

The savings method of testing memory

Proactive interference and retroactive interference are mechanisms that contribute to

When you read the word "pop" on a list, you think of it as something that might happen to a balloon. Later when someone asks you what word on the list refers to a kind of drink, you do not think of the word "pop." Why not?

In psychology, the term memory refers to,

To use the method of loci in order to memorize a list of names, what is the first thing to do?

Ebbinghaus used nonsense syllables in his experiments on memory because nonsense syllables are

The phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad are two aspects of

One difference between long-term memory and short-term memory is that

The __________ effect is a tendency to remember the first items on a list; the __________ effect is a tendency to remember the last items.

People who seem to have forgotten some information may be able to remember that same information if you

Studying as close as possible in time to the beginning of a test, under conditions as similar as possible to the test situation,

"The magical number seven, plus or minus two" refers to the capacity of

A lineup measures memory in what way?

Participants in certain studies viewed a videotape or a series of slides. Then someone asked some misleading questions, such as "Did the children get on the school bus?" (when there was no bus). The original studies most clearly documented which of the following conclusions?

You have a psychology test in four days, and you will spend a total of ten hours studying. Because you paid attention while reading the memory chapter, you know that the best strategy for studying is to

The tendency to remember something better if your body is in the same condition during recall as it was during original learning is known as

The portion of working memory that most closely corresponds with what has traditionally been viewed as short-term memory is the

Your memory of the rules of basketball or golf is a type of

In one experiment an undergraduate spent a year and a half memorizing lists of numbers and recalling them immediately. By the end of the year, how had his memory changed-if at all?