Exam 7: D: Memory

Little Tammy is talking to her grandfather.She loves to listen to him tell stories about when he was a child.He has very vivid recollections of his youth and enjoys telling people about his fond memories.Unfortunately,grandpa has a difficult time remembering what happened within the last few days or weeks.If there are no physiological problems,grandpa's memory problems are best explained by ______.

What is the capacity of short-term memory?

Chunking is a means of _______________.

Which individual studying for a test will most likely be able to remember the information accurately?

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means __________.

What is the system(s)or process(es)by which the products or results of learning are stored for future use?

The theory that states that we forget information because other information gets in the way is the _______ theory.

Most people cannot store the following list of letters in short-term memory: I T I S N O T R A I N I N G However,if the letters are grouped meaningfully into words,they fit short-term's memory span: It is not raining.This illustrates _________.

Your memories of personal information such as what you wore to work yesterday or what you ate for breakfast this morning are stored in _______________.

Which of the following is NOT an example of long-term memory?

Memory is classically defined as

What are the components of the information processing model in order?

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

Flashbulb memories are

The step in the memory process that actually makes our memories available to us is

Encoding is

Long-term memory is sometimes unreliable because of _______ of information.

What kind of forgetting does the following incident illustrate? Ruth studied the names of learning theorists for her psychology class,after which she began studying the names of political theorists for her political science class.Much to her frustration,she found the names of the learning theorists were keeping her from being able to learn the names of the political theorists.

An individual's semantic memory contains

"Old information inhibits one's ability to remember newer information" defines _________.