Exam 7: Memory

Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred are called

Which of the following statements about flashbulb memories is true?

Connie lost her keys.She searches her memory for when she last had them,and goes to that place in the hope that it will help her remember where she misplaced them.Connie is ________ activating her _________.

Tim is studying for a test.After seven consecutive hours of studying,he finds he can remember what he just finished studying,but he can no longer remember what he studied five or six hours ago.Tim's memory problems are BEST explained by __________.

The step in the memory process that actually makes our memories available to us is:

Jasmine needs to remember an 8-line poem for her 5th-grade English class next week.Her mother suggests that she link the first few words from each line with a different part of their home,starting with the front door.This suggestion is most similar to the memory strategy known as

Dual coding seems to help memory by:

What are the components of the information processing model in order?

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

If you are presented with a list of 15 words,all of which have something in common,you are most likely participating in a study focusing on _____.

In a study discussed in your textbook,volunteers were shown old childhood photos their parents had provided,including pictures of events like riding in a balloon.What did this study find?

Which of the following correctly describes the basic levels of processing (LOP)effect?

If you wanted to remember a grocery list using the method of loci,you should:

Using the mnemonic known as ____________________,you could remember the order of the first 10 U.S.presidents by imagining yourself walking from room to room in your house,with a different president sitting in each room.

Kerry's grandparents moved to a new neighborhood last year.Today,Kerry can easily remember their address but messes up their old one.This illustrates:

After Tanya has practiced a dance for her ballet class for a while,she feels as if her muscles know exactly what to do at each point in the piece.This is an example of a _____________ memory

Jonathan is choosing a perpetrator from a lineup in a robbery that he witnessed.You can be most confident in his selection if:

Information that does not fit our expectations for a situation,but is not extremely unexpected,is likely to be

Mary suffered a head injury during an automobile accident and was knocked unconscious.When she woke in a hospital the next day,she could tell that she was in a hospital room,and she immediately recognized her sister,but she had no idea why she was in the hospital or how she got there.Which memory system seems to be affected in Mary's case?

Mariska cannot remember events that occurred in her life prior to three years of age.She is most likely experiencing