Exam 8: Memory

Many years ago,telephone numbers had only four or five digits.Even now,no more than seven digits are used for phone numbers.The most reasonable psychological explanation for this is that ________________.

A visual image held in the sensory register is _____________.

Information is grouped for storage in short-term memory through the process of __________.

Memory span is a characteristic of:

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three notes of music for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them.If the instructions to recall the notes came immediately,the students usually succeeded.If the instructions came more than three seconds after the notes were played,the students were much less successful.The MOST plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that,in the latter case,_____________ .

A recognition test requires one to:

The hippocampus is instrumental in:

The average memory span consists of _______ items.

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ______.

The concept of a house would be stored in _______.