Exam 13: Human Memory Part 1

If you're thinking about your plans for the weekend while you are reading your psychology textbook, the reason you will probably forget most of what you read is that you've used ____ encoding, which is inferior to ____ encoding for retention of verbal material.

Which memory system is referred to in your text as "working memory"?

Research by George Miller suggested that the capacity of short-term memory is about ____ chunks of unrelated acoustically coded information.

You move to a new house and memorize your new phone number. Now, you can't remember your old phone number. This is an example of

Loftus' work on eyewitness testimony has clearly demonstrated that

Curtis is working on a presentation and doesn't hear the phone ringing in the background. Later, he is surprised to find three phone messages have come in for him, because he was totally unaware that the phone had even rung. Incidents of this type would lend support to

Researchers who investigated the accuracy of flashbulb memories following the 9/11 terrorist attacks found that

Interference effects on retention are greatest when the interfering learning is

When studying for her psychology exam, Amy would read each word from the list of key terms at the end of the chapter, read the definition of the term and then think of an example that illustrated each term. Amy was using the process of ____ to hopefully enhance her memory of the terms.

A visit to your elementary classroom might help you remember more of the names of some of your classmates because you are

Research by Loftus on eyewitness testimony indicates that what people recall of an accident or crime scene

If your psychology professor brags that she has a good memory because she can remember everything she saw one-fourth of a second ago, your professor is referring to her

Baddeley's concept of working memory

Chunking involves

We may forget information because of experiences we have either before or after learning the information according to

The probable reason that Ebbinghaus' forgetting curves were so steep was that Ebbinghaus

____ occurs when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information.

Curtis has been testing a new software package for the past two months. However, he decides not to switch and he goes back to using his old software. Unfortunately, he is now having some problems in recalling how to do certain tasks with the old software, and often finds himself trying to do things the way he did with the new software he was testing. Curtis' problems illustrate the effects of

The process of locating and recovering information from your memory store is

Students who study in the same room that they will be tested in find that their recall for test material is better and they tend to do better on exams. This can be attributed to