Exam 5: Memory

Hindsight bias is the process of altering memories of the past so that they are more in line with accurate information that is learned later-the Monday morning quarterback effect.

Which type of long-term memory is revised and updated more or less constantly?

In the parallel distributed processing model of memory,____________.

Trying to remember someone's name that you met long ago is an example of what type of process?

What "magic number" did Miller find to be the capacity of short-term memory?

Imagine that the first car you learned to drive was a manual transmission with a clutch,but the car you drive now is an automatic.Sometimes you find yourself reaching for the clutch that is no longer there.This example illustrates _________.

Which model of memory is most similar in conceptualization to the way computers function?

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.This is an example of the _____________.

On a TV game show,Jeannette is asked to name the state capital of Vermont.This information is most likely stored in ______.

Memory trace decay theory assumes the presence of a physical memory trace that decays with disuse over time.

Using the partial report method,Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory to be around _____________.

In the __________ model of memory,memories are simultaneously created and stored across a mental network.

_________ rehearsal results in a more lasting memory and promotes the transfer of information to long-term memory compared to _________ rehearsal.

Chunking is a means of _________.

Melanie was having a difficult time describing the man who took her purse in the mall parking lot.The officer showed her some pictures of people who had been involved in similar crimes,and she was quickly able to point out the right man.Melanie's situation is a reminder that in comparing recognition to recall,recognition tends to be __________.

Your memory for the moment you heard about the planes crashing into New York's Twin Towers would be most appropriately termed a(n)__________ memory.

The serial position effect predicts that the information that will be remembered best from a list will come at the __________ of the list.

Information is simultaneously stored across a network that stretches across the brain in the _______________.

Memory trace decay theory can explain forgetting from sensory memory and short-term memory but does not adequately explain forgetting from long-term memory.

Recognition is typically harder than recall.