Exam 8: Memory

Roger Brown and James Kulik labeled the vivid recollection of emotional events as

_______________ occurs when instead of encoding just the physical or sensory features of the information,the meaning of information is analyzed.

Which of the following ways of measuring explicit memory is usually easiest?

Chunking is a means of

A long-lasting increase in the strength of synaptic responsiveness is called long-term potentiation.

Another name for the parallel distributed processing (PDP)model of memory is the

__________ forgetting occurs due to the inability to retrieve information stored in memory because of insufficient items of information that can help us find the specific information in memory that we are looking for.

Irene swears that she was there the night her best friend got into a fight with her ex-boyfriend.It takes several of her friends to convince her that she was not.Which of the following likely made Irene's fake memory seem so real to her?

When researchers investigated organization in long-term memory,they found that

In general,psychologists agree that the inability to remember experiences during the first years of life is due to the defense mechanism of repression.

When Sir Frederic Bartlett asked people to read unfamiliar stories and then to recite the stories to him,he found that details or morals were added to make the story coherent.

Compare the efforts of Hermann Ebbinghaus,who wanted to measure pure memory loss,independent of personal experience,with those of Marigold Linton,who studied how people forget real events.

The step in the memory process that actually makes our memories available to us is

Memories undergo a gradual period of consolidation before they "solidify" and become stable.

The _______________ is associated with the encoding and storage of emotional material.

Long-term potentiation is thought to be the biological mechanism of long-term memory.

__________ is the ability to identify information you have previously observed,read,or heard about.

Contemporary memory researchers would be most likely to agree that childhood amnesia

According to the _______________ theory of forgetting,one's original perception can be erased by new and misleading information.

Margeaux is introduced to the following people when she arrives at the party: Derek,Kayla,Calvin,Debbie,Rose,Melanie,Garrett,Tom,Francis,Jane,and Vincent.According to the serial-position effect,it will be most difficult to remember the names of