Exam 8: Memory

Which memory test would most effectively reveal that Mr. Quintano, at age 55, still remembers many of his high school classmates?

Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that

After being asked to remember three consonants, participants in a study by Peterson and Peterson counted aloud backward by threes to prevent

Which measure of memory retention assesses the ability to identify which items of currently presented information one had previously learned?

What we learn under the influence of a drug may be more easily recalled when we are once again under the influence of that very same drug. This best illustrates

Peterson and Peterson demonstrated that unrehearsed short-term memories for three consonants decay almost completely in as short a time as

Jimmy was a patient with anterograde amnesia triggered by brain damage in 1945. Jimmy lost his ability to form new ________ memories but his ability for ________ remained intact.

Nancy was daydreaming about her college plans during a boring lecture on the history of computers. She doesn't remember that ENIAC was the first functioning digital computer because she wasn't paying attention. Nancy's poor memory is best explained in terms of

The testing effect is also known as

Jenkins and Dallenbach found that memory was better in people who were

An attorney uses misleading questions to distort a court witness' recall of a previously observed crime. This best illustrates

Sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inn by using the mnemonic 1-800-HOLIDAY. She is using a memory aid known as

An inability to access information in long-term memory is known as

The inability to recall which numbers on a telephone dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely due to

The three-stage processing model of memory was proposed by

Incest survivors who lack conscious memories of their sexual abuse may be told they are repressing the memory. This explanation for their lack of abuse memories emphasizes

An iconic memory is a ________ memory.

Authors and songwriters sometimes think an idea came from their own creative imagination, when in fact they are unintentionally plagiarizing something they earlier read or heard. This best illustrates

Which of the following is a form of sensory memory?

Previously learned information often facilitates our learning of new information. This phenomenon is called