Exam 5: Section 2:memory

Remembering how to drive a car is to _____ memory as remembering how to ride a bike is to _____ memory.

Individuals suffering from _____ amnesia are unable to store new _____ memories that are believed to be processed in the _____.

Which procedure(s) would be MOST useful in studying the duration of short-term memory?

Josh cannot remember his previous girlfriend's phone number because he is now frequently calling a new girlfriend. He also has trouble remembering the phone number for the new pizza delivery around the corner because he keeps recalling the phone number of the pizza delivery company located near his previous girlfriend's home. Josh's inability to remember his previous girlfriend's phone number is likely due to _____ interference, and his inability to remember the new pizza delivery phone number is likely due to _____ interference.

Which statement is FALSE?

If a professor is testing your recall ability, she is MOST likely to use _____ exams.

Although Tristan did well in statistics in high school, as an art major in college he did not use statistics. He cannot remember what he once knew about the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics. This memory difficulty MOST clearly illustrates which theory of forgetting?

For most Americans, the acronym USA is _____ chunk(s) of information; the date 1776 is _____ chunk(s) of information.

The fact that most Americans cannot easily recall exactly what a U.S. penny looks like is BEST explained by which of the following?

Our sensory memory registers allow us to _____.

Encoding refers to which of the following transfers of information?

According to the three-stage model of memory, in what sequence does incoming information flow through memory?

Sandra read a section of her textbook, but when she tried to answer the concept check questions at the end of the section, she could not even remember reading about the topics covered in the questions. It is likely that when reading, Sandra used _____ rather than _____, which is required for effective study.

If people are forced to rehearse all words on a list equally, followed by freely recalling the words, the serial position curve is likely to reveal _____.

Encoding is _____.

Rebecca demonstrated normal implicit repetition priming effects on a word fragment completion task but had difficulty forming new memories. It is likely Rebecca has experienced damage to her _____.

The initial stage of memory is somewhat comparable to _____, involving input that _____.

_____ conducted the first experimental studies of human memory using the _____ method.

Storage is _____.

A group of research participants studies Spanish, then French, and is then tested on their knowledge of the Spanish they studied. This research is designed to examine the effects of _____.