Exam 5: A: Memory

Sitting in a very noisy restaurant,you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing.This is an example of ______.

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone.The other five items in between are gone.This is an example of the _____________.

According to the semantic network model,it would take more time to answer "true" to which sentence?

Work with electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)for severe depression suggests that consolidation ___________.

Why did research participants in Sperling's experiment recall so few letters stored in sensory memory?

Forgetting in long-term memory is most likely due to _____________.

Based on Loftus's 1978 study,subjects viewed a slide presentation of an accident,and some of the subjects were asked a question about a blue car when the actual slides contained pictures of a green car.When these same subjects were asked about the color of the car at the accident,they were found to be confused.This is an example of the ____________.

Which of the following statements is true about the serial position curve?

Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for plausible false events than for implausible ones.

Iconic memory allows the eye to fuse the images from each tiny movement of the eye into a smooth,continuous pattern.

A.R.Luria studied a mnemonist with phenomenal memory.This person had several problems associated with the ability.Which was one reported in your textbook?

You are invited to take part in a study by a researcher trying to replicate the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus.What might this researcher ask you to do?

Declarative memory can be divided into semantic memory and episodic memory.

Short-term memory can hold about 12 plus or minus 2 bits of information.

People with dementia typically have a memory problem known as ____________.

Shalissa has two exams today.One is in French and the other is in history.Last night she studied French before history.When she gets to her history test,all she can remember is French! Shalissa's memory is suffering from _____________.

Suzy looks up from her lunch,realizing that Jacques has just said something to her.What was it? Oh,yes,he has just asked her if she wants to go to the movies.Suzy's ability to retrieve what Jacques said is due to her ____________.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ______.

The levels-of-processing model of memory would suggest that which of the following questions would lead to better memory of the word frog?

Long ago,during the early days of television,when a television set was turned off it took a while for the last image that was on the screen to fade away.This phenomenon is most like _______________.