Exam 8: Memory

According to the original Atkinson-Shiffrin three-stage model of memory,your activated but limited-capacity memory is called ________ memory.

Joshua vividly recalls his feelings and what he was doing at the exact moment when he heard of his grandfather's unexpected death.This best illustrates ________ memory.

Emotional arousal ________ memory of certain events,while it ________ memory for irrelevant events that occur around the same time.

After recovering from a stroke,Farina was able to learn how to hit a tennis ball.She is unable,however,to learn and remember the name of the rehabilitation therapist who has been working with her each day to develop her tennis swing.Farina is most likely to have suffered damage to her

After reading a newspaper report suggesting that drunken driving might have contributed to a recent auto accident,Melissa and Jeremy,who actually witnessed the accident,began to remember the driver involved as traveling more recklessly than was actually the case.This provides an example of

The finding that drugs that block LTP interfere with learning indicates that LTP is

Which of the following is true regarding flashbulb memories?

Jamille is taking French in school.She gets better grades on vocabulary tests if she studies for 15 minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test.This illustrates what is known as

After hearing a list of items,peoples' immediate recall of the items is more likely to show a(n)________ effect than is their later recall of the items.

Proactive interference can be considered

Using your working memory to link an unfamiliar textbook glossary term with the first letter sound required to pronounce the term illustrates

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

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

Encoding words based on the appearance of the word's letters involves

Effortful processing is to automatic processing as ________ is to ________.

Consciously recalling an event that you experienced during your last year of high school best illustrates

Jill was very close to her grandmother and did not cope well when she passed away.She tries not to think about her grandmother and rarely talks about her.Freud would say that Jill is demonstrating which defense mechanism?

Encoding verbal information semantically involves

Young adults have ________ working-memory capacity than children and ________ working-memory capacity than older adults.

Ebbinghaus found that memorizing familiar words required much less effort than memorizing nonsense syllables.This best illustrates the advantage of