Exam 7: Memory

Memories for information that was learned without our being aware of it are known as _____.

Which part of working memory does not actually store information,but instead guides attention and ensures that the other components are working on the appropriate task?

One way to improve memory is to use techniques that allow the information to be stored in more than one form.This is known as

Which of the following do the textbook authors suggest might be a cause of infantile amnesia?

What kind of forgetting does the following incident illustrate? Ruth studied the names of learning theorists for her psychology class,after which she began studying the names of political theorists for her political science class.Much to her frustration,she found the names of the learning theorists were keeping her from being able to learn the names of the political theorists.

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday or what you ate for breakfast this morning are stored in _______________.

The short-term memory capacity (digit-span)in a normal adult is about:

__________ is the first process of transferring sensory and perceptual information into a memory trace.

As Dominique reviews the vocabulary terms for her French class,she is most likely to experience the greatest degree of forgetting

Memories that can be verbalized,whether they are about your own experiences or your knowledge about the world,are called _____.

At the beginning history class,the teacher reviewed the major battles of the Napoleonic Wars.Later in class,he showed a video on the Holocaust during World War II.Based on the experiments on the effects of emotions on memory discussed in your textbook,what effect will watching the video have on the students' memories for the battles of the Napoleonic wars?

Many years ago,telephone numbers had only four or five digits.Even now,no more than seven digits are used for phone numbers.The most reasonable psychological explanation for this is that ________________.

Steve was recalling his first day in college,including walking into the wrong class,dropping his books as he left,and the long line at the registrar's office he encountered when he had to switch classes.These memories are examples of

Gillian is assembling a bookcase.She studies one of the diagrams in the instructions and then looks for the parts she needs and begins to put them together.According to the working memory model discussed in your textbook,which part of Gillian's memory remembers what the parts in the diagram looked like while she works?

Flashbulb memories are:

Your street address,telephone number,and social security number are stored in

Maria finds that it is easier to remember her student ID number if she thinks of it in segments,such as the first three digits,then the next two,and then the final four.Each of these short segments of the number are called

Visual images remain in sensory memory for about

The hippocampus is instrumental in:

Prolonging exposure to the information by repeating it to oneself is referred to as _____.