Exam 5: Section 3:memory

The forgetting curve for long-term memory in Ebbinghaus's relearning studies with nonsense syllables indicates that _____.

After learning the phone number for Five Star Pizza, Bob cannot remember the phone number he learned last week for the Donut Connection. After living in Los Angeles for three years, Jim is unable to remember his way around his hometown in which he had lived the previous 10 years prior to moving to Los Angeles. Bob is experiencing the effects of _____ interference, and Jim is experiencing the effects of _____.

Per levels-of-processing theory, which question about the word "depressed" would BEST prepare you to correctly remember tomorrow that you had seen the word in this practice test today?

The results for the experiment in which word lists were studied on land or underwater and then recalled either on land or underwater provide evidence for _____.

Which of the following leads to the best long-term memory?

Piaget's false memory of a kidnapping attempt when he was a child was the result of _____.

Our short-term memory capacity is _____ $\pm$ 2 chunks.

An essay test measures _____, and a multiple-choice test measures _____.

Which is NOT a mnemonic aid?

In the Loftus and Palmer experiment, participants were shown a film of a traffic accident and then later tested for their memory of it. The finding that memory differed based on the specific words used in the test questions illustrated _____.

The primacy and recency effects in free recall demonstrate that we have the greatest difficulty recalling the words _____ of a list.

Which type of memory has the shortest duration?

Procedural memories are _____ memories and thus are probably processed in the _____.

Which type of memory holds sensory input until we can attend to and recognize it?

Which theory of forgetting argues that the forgotten information was in long-term memory but is no longer available?