Exam 5: Section 1: Memory: Living With Yesterday

General knowledge, language, and concepts are seen as parts of ___________.

Proactive interference as used in the study of memory refers to when _____________.

When people hear a sound, their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve, which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound.This process is called ________________.

Automatic processing, compared to controlled processing, involves less ________.

Why does distributed practice result in improved memory over massed practice?

Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone.He asks his partner to read him his credit card number.However, when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line, he can't remember all the numbers.Jamal is coming up against ______.

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information, this is called ______________.

Suppose Tamika looks up a number in the telephone book.After getting a busy signal, a minute or so later she tries to call again - but has already forgotten the number! This example illustrates the limited duration of________ memory.

What is autobiographical memory?

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 start of the list demonstrates the