Exam 5: The Acquisition of Memories and the Working-Memory System

For most recall tests, the transfer of items into long-term storage is BEST facilitated by _____ rehearsal.

In general, any technique designed to improve memory is referred to as:

Although mnemonics can be helpful for remembering a small number of specific items (like a grocery list), they do have some drawbacks. One such problem is:

The memorizer plays an important role in memory acquisition. Which of the following is LEAST likely to have an effect on long-term memory?

The operations through which we gain new knowledge, retain that knowledge, and later use that knowledge are often divided into three categories. Which of the following is NOT one of those categories?

In list-learning experiments, participants' performance in the pre-recency portion of the curve will be improved by:

As a general rule, the intention to learn:

Select the order of processing that MOST accurately represents the probability an item will be retained (most likely > least likely):

Which of the following is a particular problem for people with frontal lobe damage?

An experimenter reads a list of 30 words to a group of participants at the rate of one word per second. This is immediately followed by a free-recall test. A second group of participants hears the same 30 words presented at the faster rate of two words per second. We should expect that the group hearing the slower presentation will show improved memory performance for the:

Which of these is NOT true for an information-processing view of memory?

A patient with frontal lobe damage is given a task in which he must change his response when he encounters a new stimulus. The patient understands the directions and knows that the stimulus has changed, but continues to make an old response. This patient is:

The strategy of maintenance rehearsal involves:

Participants in an experiment were asked to keep track of the most recent word they had heard that started with a "G." Therefore, participants should report "gravy" after hearing the sequence "girl, grump, hat, scissors, whistle, pen, radio, bed, foot, glass, lantern, gravy." Later, participants are asked to report back all the "G" words they had heard. Then we would expect:

A participant is asked to recall a series of numbers, and the participant chooses to think about the numbers as though they were years (e.g., 1, 9, 9, 7 becomes "The year I turned 16"). The participant is organizing information into the memory unit known as a(n):