Exam 8: A: Memory

Eidetic imagery is the technical term for photographic memory.

When driving in a car,why do stores along the roadside seem familiar?

George Miller suggested that four (plus or minus two)was the "magic number" that characterized people's memory performance on random lists of meaningful,familiar items.

The research on working memory has helped to solidify the belief that short-term memory is not a process,but is a particular place where memories go.

In a study that is described in the textbook,college students were asked to either perform or imagine performing actions.On a future memory test,what did the researchers find?

Alzheimer's disease is a biological condition in which memory function gradually breaks down.

When trying to learn a list of items that will need to be remembered later,a person associates each item with one of a series of rhymes,such as "one is a bun," "two is a shoe","three is a tree" and so on.Which memory technique is being used?

After conducting many studies in search of the engram,what did Lashley conclude about the engram?

In his impressive studies of memory,what did Sir Frederic Bartlett discover about participants who were asked to remember stories?

Abby is participating in an experiment in which she has to learn a list of words in a red room and then is tested either in the same red room or in a blue room.What are the investigators most likely studying?

Researchers have discovered very high brain activity in the for encoding of episodic information.

Anagrams and word fragment completion tasks are used to assess implicit memory.

What can be concluded about eyewitnesses' memories from the influential studies carried out by Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues?

Memories emerge most efficiently when cues received at the time of recall match those present at the time of encoding.This principle is known as .

Your best friend is always in trouble at home because she does not remember to do her homework,turn in class assignments,or to do the things her mother asked her to do after school.She is always late for school because she constantly forgets to bring what she needs for the day.You have been studying memory in psychology class.What techniques for better encoding and retrieval of information can you share with her?

The phonological loop,visuospatial sketchpad,and central executive are three components of .

Trying to memorize a list of all of the prime ministers of Canada is an example of an implicit use of memory.

As described in the textbook,researchers recruited college undergraduates for a study based on experience sampling.Participants were asked how challenging they found each task,and the extent to which their minds wandered from the tasks.What did the researchers discover?

Imagine that Lil is fourth in line to give a short speech in class this morning.If the "next-in-line" effect is present,what can be predicted?

When Mika sees the supermarket cashier while she is in the ticket line at the theater,Mika recognizes her but cannot remember how she know her.To what can this phenomenon most likely be attributed?