Exam 13: Human Memory Part 1

Jason has been trying unsuccessfully for days to remember the name of a song that was popular when he was in the tenth grade. The "oldies" radio station just played the song and after hearing only the first few seconds of the song the name of the song "popped into his head." The opening seconds of the song provided Jason appropriate ____ for him to overcome his retrieval failure.

The order of the basic memory processes in which information enters our memory system and is used later is

Savings scores are associated with the ____ method of measuring forgetting.

Inadvertent "plagiarism" that occurs when people come up with an idea that they think is original, when they were actually exposed to it earlier, is known as

Which of the following was NOT a level of processing associated with verbal information as suggested by Craik and Lockhart (1972)?

Jade rearranges the letters HI TRE DBA T into "hit red bat." This is an example of

You are observing another student reading in the cafeteria. There are several distracting sounds, but the individual does not look up or otherwise appear to notice any of the disruptions. Based on Lavie's view of the attention filter, you should conclude that the person is reading ____ material because external information is being filtered ____.

To be most effective, a retrieval cue should be

Multiple choice exams such as this one measure retention by using the ____ method.

The memory process of retrieval is associated with

As Art was walking out the door of his apartment, he was quickly running through a mental list of all the things he was supposed to take with him. He went through the complete list of items four or five times, just to make sure he hadn't forgotten anything. Based on Baddeley's model of working memory, Art was utilizing

Based on the research by Talarico and Rubin, which tested the accuracy of flashbulb memories one year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which of the following is NOT one of the things that makes flashbulb memories special?

If you are given a list of vocabulary words to study briefly before being tested on your memory of the words, as you read through the list you should

When their mom took them to the store yesterday she asked David and Andrew to help her remember to buy apples. While David focused his attention on how apples were his favorite fruit, Andrew thought of seeing a bag of big red apples in the shopping cart. David was using ____ and Andrew ____.

The semantic level of processing focuses attention on

A history teacher who asks his students to state from memory the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution is assessing retention by using the ____ method.

One current view of memory storage systems suggests that ____ should be considered a continually changing portion of ____.

The view that short-term and long term memory were independent systems was based originally on the idea that information loss from short-term memory depended on ____ and long-term memory loss was due to ____.

With rehearsal, information in short-term memory can be maintained for some time. Without rehearsal, the duration of short-term memory is

Miles has very vivid memories of a car accident he witnessed five years ago. When he closes his eyes and thinks about the accident, he feels as if he can recall every detail of it, right down to the brand name printed on the tires of one of the cars. This type of memory is called