Exam 5: A: Memory

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the ______.

A psychologist asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher.Surprisingly,the majority of people correctly do this and comment,"Gee whiz,I haven't thought about that old bat [or old coot] in years!" Their ability to do so is a severe problem for which theory of forgetting?

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia found in adults and the elderly.

The best analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized would be _________.

Memories retrieved while under hypnosis are no more accurate than memories retrieved while not under hypnosis,but persons who retrieve memories under hypnosis are far more reluctant to change their answers even when told that they may be wrong.

Elaborative rehearsal is a way of transferring information from short-term memory into long-term memory by making that information meaningful in some way.

Hypnotized people report more accurate AND inaccurate information than people who are not hypnotized.

Which of these individuals is the most typical person involved in a case in which memories of past childhood abuse are recalled later in life?

Memory for fear of objects is most likely stored in the cerebellum.

Recall is a type of memory retrieval in which the information to be retrieved must be "pulled" out of memory with few or no cues.

Encoding failure is often the reason some memories cannot be retrieved,because they were never actually encoded in the first place.

Hypnosis enhances the confidence people have in their memories,regardless of their accuracy or inaccuracy.

Decay theory works well to explain forgetting in _____________.

Pezdek and colleagues found that for a person to interpret thoughts and fantasies about false events as true memories ________________.

Which of the following is an example of a test using recall?

You try to remember a phone number by repeating it over and over to yourself.What type of rehearsal are you using?

You are learning a list of items for a test by relating the items to each other and to information that you already have stored in memory.Which type of rehearsal are you using?

When old information interferes with the retrieval of newer information,this is called retroactive interference.

In the levels-of-processing model of memory,information that gets processed at a ________ level (such as accessing the meaning of a word or phrase)is more likely to be retained longer and form a stronger memory than information that is processed at a _________ level (such as the visual characteristics of a word).

Which technique is widely used by therapists to help clients recover lost childhood memories?