Exam 6: Memory

Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades?

A witness on the stand swears that he saw someone commit a crime.Must you believe that the testimony is valid when a witness testifies so forcefully?

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

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.His memory of things at the end of the list demonstrates the

Personal facts and memories of one's personal history are parts of ___________.

Ebbinghaus found that information is forgotten ____________.

The most influential researcher into eyewitness memory has been ______.

According to primacy and recency effects,when reading the chapters of the textbook,you are most likely to forget ________.

If one wants to increase the capacity of short-term memory,more items can be held through the process of __________.

Define the memory trace decay theory of forgetting.

Which of the following examples represents the shallowest processing as described by Craik and Lockhart?

When memories are stored in long-term memory,which of the following forms of information is used?

Maria finds that it is easier to remember her student ID number if she thinks of it in segments,such as the first three digits,then the next two,and then the final four.Each of these short segments of the number are called ________.

In the famous case of H.M. ,after having part of his brain removed,he could no longer ______.

Semantic and episodic memories may be stored in the frontal and temporal lobes as well but in different locations than short-term memory.

Echoic memory is the auditory form of sensory memory,which takes the form of an echo that lasts for up to 1.5 seconds.

Evidence suggests that short-term memories are stored in the _____________.

For which famous memory researcher is memory a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event,and the memory is the solution to that problem?

Patients with anterograde amnesia were taught to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem.It was later found that they _______________.

Your teacher has given each student the name of a key figure in the history of psychology.The assignment is to describe at least one significant contribution made by this person.If your historical figure is Hermann Ebbinghaus,what contribution might you describe to the class?