Exam 5: Memory

A psychologist asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher.Surprisingly,the majority of people correctly do this and comment,"Gee whiz,I haven't thought about that him/her in years!" Their ability to do so is a severe problem for which theory of forgetting?

According to the levels-of-processing model of memory,we are most likely to remember information that we process at a _____________ level.

A mnemonist is a person with exceptional memory ability.

Retroactive interference as used in the study of memory refers to when___________.

Memories for general facts and personal information are called __________.

You started out by using WordPerfect and then moved to Microsoft Word because your company demanded that all documents be in Word.If you have trouble with Word,it is most likely due to __________.

Why is implicit memory so difficult to study?

Information selected from sensory memory is transferred to conscious awareness or:

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

Which of the following examples represents the shallowest processing as described by the levels-of-processing model of memory?

Iconic memory allows the eye to fuse the images from each tiny movement of the eye into a smooth,continuous pattern.

Personal facts and memories of one's personal history are parts of ___________.

Semantic memory is organized __________.

Although Sperling found evidence that iconic memory lasts about half a second,in reality information gets pushed out rather quickly by newer information.Evidence suggests that iconic memory really lasts about __________ of a second.

In the famous case of H.M.,after having part of his brain removed,he could no longer __________.

Iconic memory is the visual sensory memory,in which an afterimage or icon will be held in neural form for about .50 to 2.00 seconds.

Maria finds that it is easier to remember her student ID number if she thinks of it in segments,such as the first three digits,then the next two,and then the final four.These short segments of the number are called _________.

The key to the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory was to _____________.

Memory is defined as an active system that consists of three processes.They are ____________.

A.R.Luria studied a mnemonist with phenomenal memory.This person had several problems associated with the ability.Which was one reported in your textbook?