Exam 13: Human Memory Part 1

Ebbinghaus used which of the following as stimuli in his classic studies of forgetting?

Nodes representing concepts joined together by pathways that link related concepts is referred to as

Information-processing theory subdivides the memory process of ____ into three separate components.

When you mentally picture the road between your house and school, you are relying on which component of working memory?

Nelson Cowan cites evidence indicating that the capacity of short-term memory is actually

A handful of theorists have questioned the concept of sensory memory on the grounds that

You are absorbed in reading your psychology text when the phone rings. After talking on the phone, you can't remember the last thing you read. This information was lost from ____ memory, because the phone conversation distracted you from ____ the information.

Which statement best represents current thinking about early-selection versus late-selection theories of attention?

A relearning measure requires subjects to

According to Sigmund Freud, the process that is at work when distressing thoughts and feelings remain buried in the unconscious is

An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experiences with the object or event is known as

According to Lavie, the location of the attention filter depends on the "cognitive load" of the current information processing. Selection tends to occur early when individuals

Kiana was given a list of words as part of a memory test that included: "dog, pail, and hate." Later, she recalled these words as: "dig, paint, and hard." Kiana's errors in recall suggest that she had encoded the original word list

A memory code that emphasizes the meaning of verbal input is called

A 1-800 number for a product Ronald was interested in flashed on the television screen. Unfortunately the number disappeared before Ronald was able to write down the last three digits. However, Ronald found he had a momentary mental image of the phone number, and he was able to complete it, even though the number had disappeared. Ronald's experience BEST illustrates

According to Lavie, the location of the attention filter depends on the "cognitive load" of the current information processing. Selection tends to occur late when individuals

Cindy is watching her little sister as she skips rope. As long as the rope is turning, all Cindy can see is a blur of color. She can only make out the shape of the skipping rope when her sister stops skipping. The "blurred" image that Cindy sees while the rope is moving results from the way in which

Tyler witnessed an automobile accident and heard one of the bystanders casually mention that the driver was probably intoxicated. Even though the driver had not been drinking, and had never crossed the center line, Tyler tells the police officer who is investigating the accident that the car had been "weaving all over the road." Tyler's faulty recall illustrates

If forgetting occurs because newly learned information impairs the memory of previously learned information it is referred to as

In order for a memory to be retrieved, it must first be