Exam 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday

A skill is like a habit, except that __________________.

Simone is repeating a phone number to herself over and over. As such, she is using her articulatory loop.

A(n) ________ memory can be easily called to mind whereas a(n) ________ memory cannot.

Summarize the key mystery behind the repressed memories debate and how researchers have attempted to answer it.

Can memory be improved?

Which model of memory proposes that the deeper a person processes information, the better it will be remembered?

Chunking is a means of ______.

Recency effects occur for the first few stimuli encoded.

Your teacher has given each student the name of a key figure in the history of psychology. The assignment is to describe at least one significant contribution made by this person. If your historical figure is Hermann Ebbinghaus, what contribution might you describe to the class?

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. His memory of things at the end of the list demonstrates the __________________.

All of the following are good ways to enhance encoding except ________.

Miller argued that STM could hold ________ chunks at once.

According to primacy and recency effects, when reading the chapters of the textbook, you are most likely to forget ________.

In the depth-of-processing model of memory, information that gets processed at a ________ level (such as accessing the meaning of a word or phrase) is more likely to be retained longer and form a stronger memory than information that is processed at a _________ level (such as the visual characteristics of a word).

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE. This tactic is called ______.

Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ______.

Codes refer to the external aspects of stimuli.

Suppose you're pitching in a baseball game facing a good hitter. You remember that you struck him out with a fastball the last time he was up. You also remember that your coach told you always to try to be unpredictable, so you decide to throw a curve ball this time. In making this decision, you are primarily using your ________.

Examples of tests that use recognition are _____________.

People tend to forget negative affect associated with autobiographical memories more quickly than they forget positive affect. What enhances this effect?