Exam 5: Memory

When memories are stored in long-term memory,which of the following forms of information is used?

The Internet,with its series of links from one site to many others,is a good analogy for the organization of _____________.

You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory.Which type of rehearsal are you using?

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means _______.

The misinformation effect refers to the tendency of people who are asked misleading questions or given misleading information to incorporate that information into their memories for a particular event.

Although the capacity of short-term memory is limited,more items can be held in this kind of storage through the process of __________.

Based on Loftus's 1978 study,subjects viewed a slide presentation of an accident,and some of the subjects were asked a question about a blue car when the actual slides contained pictures of a green car.When these same subjects were asked about the color of the car at the accident,they were found to be confused.This is an example of the __________.

The type of memory that is most like an encyclopedia or a dictionary is __________.

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 _________.

An echo usually stays in the sensory registers for __________.

Kerry's grandparents moved to a new neighborhood last year.Today,Kerry can easily remember their address but messes up their old one.This illustrates:

Episodic memory consists of personal facts and memories of one's personal history.

Short-term memory can hold about 12 plus or minus 2 bits of information.

"Forgetting that occurs as a function of the passage of time" defines ________.

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

Patients with anterograde amnesia were taught to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.It was later found that they remembered solving the problem and could do so again.

When given a list of items to remember,people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list.This is known as the _________.

"Iconic" and "echoic" are to sensory memory as "episodic," "semantic," and "procedural" are to _______ memory.

If ___________is like losing a document in the computer because of a power loss,__________ is like pushing the "save" key and having the document disappear instead of being stored.

In this view,memories are literally "built" from the pieces stored away at encoding.This view is called ______________.