Exam 6: Memory

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

Someone a short distance away,to whom you have been paying no attention,quietly speaks your name,and suddenly you attend to that person.This is an example of _________.

Episodic memory consists of personal facts and memories of one's personal history.

The misinformation effect refers to the tendency of people who are asked misleading questions or given misleading information to incorporate that information into their memories of a particular event.

A man known as H.M.lost the ability to form new memories after an operation removed portions of his _________.

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 _________.

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending.This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation.Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of _________.

Recognition is the ability to match information with stored images or facts.

Trying to remember someone's name whom you met long ago is an example of what type of process?

Infant memories are mostly implicit and,therefore,difficult to bring into conscious awareness.When children become more verbal,their explicit memories become more dominant.

In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus,the greatest amount of forgetting occurs _________.

The most influential researcher into eyewitness memory has been _________.

In one study,over 2,500 photographs were shown to participants,one every 10 seconds.Participants were then shown pairs of photographs in which one member of each pair was one of the previously seen photographs.Accuracy for identifying the previously seen photos was _________.

What is one of the real-world uses of iconic storage?

Micah is trying to remember the specific route he took to the library the night before.What part of working memory is he accessing?

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

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order.She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE.This tactic is called _________.

What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

It is thought that long-term memory never can get filled u

According to Baddeley,which memory system is best conceived of as three interrelated systems: central executive,visual sketchpad,and auditory recorder?