Exam 8: Memory

Visual sensory memory is referred to as

Chunking refers to

Memories initially processed in the hippocampus are transferred to ________ for long-term storage.

Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned is called

While taking the final exam in American history, Marie was surprised and frustrated by her momentary inability to remember the name of the current president of the United States. Her difficulty most clearly illustrates

For a moment after hearing his dog's high-pitched bark, Mr. Silvers has a vivid auditory impression of the dog's yelp. His experience most clearly illustrates ________ memory.

Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fall asleep is most likely due to

Which measure of memory retention is used by fill-in-the-blank test questions?

Hotaka can vividly recall the devastating experience of barely surviving a tsunami that took many others' lives. It is likely that the stress of that experience provoked the ________ to boost activity in the memory-forming areas of his brain.

When 80-year-old Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. The picture served as a powerful

The human capacity for storing long-term memories is

The psychologist Jean Piaget constructed a vivid, detailed memory of a nursemaid's thwarting his kidnapping after hearing false reports of such an event. His experience best illustrates

Explicit memory is to ________ as implicit memory is to ________.

Effortful processing is encoding that requires

Mentally rehearsing the glossary definitions of unfamiliar terms in order to remember them for a later test illustrates

After hearing stories of things they both had and had not actually experienced with "Mr. Science," preschool children spontaneously recalled him doing things that were only mentioned in the stories. This best illustrates

Psychologist Karl Lashley found that rats retained at least a partial memory of how to navigate a maze after he

George Miller proposed that about seven information bits constitutes the capacity of ________ memory.

Rehearsal is to encoding as retrieval cues are to

Shortly after hearing a list of items, people tend to recall the last items in the list especially quickly and accurately. This best illustrates