Exam 8: Memory

Alan Baddeley's model of working memory includes

Consciously recalling that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth best illustrates

Sigmund Freud emphasized that the forgetting of painful experiences is caused by a process that involves

The inability to form new memories is called

Memories are primed by

To remember her way from her new home to her school,Julie consciously formed a mental image of each street corner at which she needed to turn.This best illustrates

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

Alfredo is on his way to the store and is repeating aloud the list of items he needs to get.Which method is he using to encode the information?

At a block party,Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors.Moments later,she remembers only the names of the first three and last two neighbors.Her experience best illustrates

It's easier to remember the names of North America's five Great Lakes by using the first letter of each of the lakes to create the single word "HOMES." This strategy best illustrates the value of

Experimental participants viewed symbols on a computer screen without knowing that these symbols had earlier been subliminally flashed on the screen.Based on information provided in the text,it can be expected that half the participants will report experiencing

As a child,Megan devoted years to learning how to read.As an adult,she effortlessly understands the sentences in a novel,which she reads at a pace of nearly 400 words per minute.Her adult reading speed best highlights the value of

Information learned while a person is ________ is best recalled when that person is ________.

Which of the following is believed to be the synaptic basis for learning and memory?

Ebbinghaus identified a forgetting curve in which the course of forgetting is initially rapid and then levels off with time.This finding was later confirmed by

Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve most clearly indicates that

As a child,Andre dreamed that he was chased and attacked by a ferocious dog.Many years later,he mistakenly recalled that this had actually happened to him.Andre's false recollection best illustrates

Karl Lashley trained rats to solve a maze and then removed pieces of their cortexes.He observed that storage of their maze memory was

Information-processing models compare human memory to a

Which of the following is an effective way to distribute practice that not only will assess what you have learned and remember but will also improve both?