Exam 5: Memory

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 ______________.

The items on this test illustrate which method of testing memory?

Most people cannot store the following list of letters in short-term memory. G O T O Y O U R B E D R O O M However,if the letters are grouped meaningfully into words,they fit short-term's memory span: Go to your bedroom.This illustrates _________.

Chunking aids:

The levels-of-processing model of memory would suggest that which of the following questions would lead to better memory of the word frog?

An individual's semantic memory contains:

Loftus has found that eyewitness memory is extremely reliable and does not change over time.

The duration of iconic memory is _________ than echoic memory,but iconic's capacity is probably _________.

Ebbinghaus found that information is forgotten ____________.

In anterograde amnesia,memory for anything new becomes impossible,although old memories may still be retrievable.

Chunking is a means of _______.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ___________ .

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 _________.

Little Tammy is talking to her grandfather.She loves to listen to him tell stories about when he was a child.He has very vivid recollections of his youth and enjoys telling people about his fond memories.Unfortunately,grandpa has a difficult time remembering what happened within the last few days or weeks.If there are no physiological problems,grandpa's memory problems are best explained by ______.

Memory can best be described as __________.

Christine has always had an unusually effective memory.She credits this to the fact that after seeing something just once,she can visualize the object in great detail,as if she was looking at a photograph of it.Christine's ability is an example of ________.

You start out using Firefox,then change to Explorer because your company demands that browsers be Microsoft products.If you have trouble with Explorer,it is most likely due to _____________.

____________ is retention of memory for some period of time.

The research of Eich and Metcalf would suggest that if you were really happy when you were learning math,you should be __________ when taking the math exam to do well.

Patients with anterograde amnesia were taught to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.It was later found that they ____________.