Exam 23: Learning by Observation

An iconic memory is a ________ memory.

The original Atkinson and Shiffrin memory model focused on how we

An eyewitness to a bank robbery is asked to identify suspects from a police lineup.Which test of memory is being used?

Three basic measures of memory retention are

Four-year-old Aaron doesn't recall ever seeing a hypodermic needle,and he can't remember the series of painful injections he received when he was a 2-year-old.When shown a hypodermic needle,however,he reacted with a classically conditioned fear response.Aaron's fear reaction indicates that he retains a(n)________ memory.

Sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inn by using the mnemonic 1-800-HOLIDAY.She is using a memory aid known as

To study the impact of practice on memory retention,Hermann Ebbinghaus practiced learning

When you have to make a long-distance call,dialing an unfamiliar area code plus a seven-digit number,you are likely to have trouble retaining the just-looked-up number.This best illustrates the limited capacity of ________ memory.

Researchers had students listen to brief audio clips of popular songs for only four-tenths of a second.Most participants were able to recognize the artist and song more than ________ percent of the time.

Sensory memory is

Short-term memory capacity can be increased through

In Alan Baddeley's model of working memory,focusing attention is the task of a hypothetical

Tim,a third-grader,learns the sentence "George Eats Old Gray Rats and Paints Houses Yellow" to help him remember the spelling of "geography." Tim is using

Long-term memory refers to

The self-reference effect best illustrates the value of

Automatic processing and effortful processing refer to two types of

People can develop classically conditioned emotional reactions without any conscious recollection of how or when those reactions were learned.This best illustrates ________ memory.

Some of the information in our ________ memory is encoded into ________ memory.

The encoding of many aspects of a remembered event simultaneously best illustrates our brain's capacity for

Varsity basketball players can recall the positions of the players after a 4-second glance at a basketball play.This ability is best explained in terms of