Exam 8: A: Memory

A father has sent his daughter to the grocery store.As his daughter leaves,the father can hear her repeating,"a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread" over and over again.What type of memory strategy is the daughter using?

In trying to explain rugby to a friend,David finds himself using terminology from Canadian football,with which he is most familiar.What did Bartlett call this reconstructive process?

Researchers of implicit memory have investigated the relationship between encoding and retrieval by using priming based on physical features or meaning.What were the conclusions?

Availability of information through memory processes without conscious effort is called ,whereas conscious effort to encode and recover information through memory processes is called .

A person is given a list of items to recall.According to the effect,recall of items at the beginning and end of the list should be better than recall of items appearing in the middle.

Which statement about "photographic memory" is supported by research?

Which scenario is an example of retroactive interference?

If people are given a list of unrelated words and are asked to learn them in order,they will likely show evidence of both the primacy effect and the recency effect.

Certain strategies or devices encode a long series of facts,associating those facts with familiar and previously encoded information to enhance subsequent retieval.Which term refers to these memory strategies?

The levels-of-processing theory suggests that the deeper the level at which information was processed,the more difficult it will be to remember.

A student is trying to commit to memory,for the first time,the various parts of the neuron.If she uses an elaborative rehearsal strategy to accomplish this task,what will she do?

For Karl Lashley,to what does the engram refer?

When past memories make it more difficult to encode and retrieve new information,you have experienced interference.

In a study that is described in the textbook,amnesic and control individuals were tested for explicit and implicit memory ability.What did the results indicate?

How does iconic memory differ from eidetic imagery?