Exam 8: Memory

Hearing the word "rabbit" may lead people to spell the spoken word "hair" as "h-a-r-e." This best illustrates the outcome of a process known as

The semantic processing of the words in a short poem illustrates

When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which measure of memory is being used?

To recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory, researchers have characterized it as ________ memory.

Mrs. Ramos claims to remember being sexually abused by her father when she was less than a year old. Her memory is not likely to be reliable because of

A mnemonic is a

Recalling an old password and holding it in working memory would be most likely to activate the

The integration of new incoming information with knowledge retrieved from long-term memory involves the activity of

Short-term memory capacity can be increased through

Memory techniques such as acronyms and the peg-word system are called

Two people learned nonsense syllables and then tried to recall them after up to eight hours had elapsed. Jenkins and Dallenbach observed that forgetting occurred least rapidly when the individuals spent their time

Effortful processing most clearly requires

Automatic processing most clearly occurs without

Students who study throughout the term and then restudy course material at the end of a semester to pass a comprehensive final are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates

Retention of skills and classically conditioned associations without conscious recollection is known as ________ memory.

Studies demonstrate that learning causes permanent neural changes in the ________ of animals' neurons.

Our short-term memory span is approximately ________ items.

Which measure of memory is used on a test that requires matching glossary terms with their correct definitions?

The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory

Professor Maslova has so many memories of former students that she has difficulty remembering the names of new students. The professor's difficulty best illustrates