Exam 8: Memory

Which statement below best expresses the relationship between familiarity and source confusion?

Somewhere between Her blue eyes and jeans There's a heart that's been broken Along with her dreams. These lines from a Conway Twitty song are far easier to remember than a string of eight of Ebbinghaus's three-letter syllables. Why?

Attempting to recall an unusual word, Arturo experiences the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Which of the following statements is most likely FALSE regarding Arturo's experience?

Deanie is getting her driver's license. The written test assesses her __________ knowledge of driving; the road test, her __________ knowledge.

What is the so-called magic number with respect to working memory?

The confidence of a witness reporting his memory for the witnessed event is __________.

Almost everybody has had the feeling of knowing the answer to a question, but not being quite able to say it. This is known as the "tip-of the-tongue" phenomenon and is a failure of __________.

Participants in a memory experiment read a list of words. They are then asked to count backwards by threes for a brief interval. Finally, they have to recall as many of the list words as they can. What is most likely the point of the backwards-counting task?

Bob always studies psychology in a particular part of the library. According to the encoding-specificity principle, Bob will do best on his psychology exams if he __________.

You need to locate a particular file on your computer's hard drive to complete an assignment. Which of the following situations is most nearly analogous to the concept of retrieval failure as it is defined in your textbook?

A group of subjects hears a list of 15 words, after which there is a delay of 30 seconds before they are asked to recall the words. During this delay period, rehearsal is prevented. When asked for free recall of the words, which of the following will be affected the most?

Generic memory is another term for __________ memory.

Let's say you hear a series of sentences derogatory to Britney Spears, such as "Britney Spears can't hit any high notes," and then are asked to rate how interesting each sentence is. You then hear the sentence, "Britney Spears can't hit any high notes" again. What effect can this sort of priming have?

You know the name of a cat your biology professor owned while she was in graduate school because of a story she told in class one day. You gained this piece of knowledge through __________.

Melinda is computing the correlation coefficient between scores from a measure of eyewitness confidence and scores from a measure of eyewitness accuracy. What sort of coefficient do you think she'll find?

Which of the following facts most directly supports the notion that the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is a failure of retrieval rather than of acquisition or storage?

Dr. Gigliotti studies memory in her laboratory using the DRM paradigm. In which of the following phenomena is she probably most interested?

Al remembers the first letter of each cranial nerve in correct order by remembering the phrase "On old Olympus' towering top a Finn and German." This is an example of __________.

Which pattern describes the curve of long-term forgetting for such things as memory for a foreign language?

Which of the following is the principal distinction between retrograde and anterograde amnesia?