Exam 7: Human Memory

According to the serial-position effect, subjects tend to show better recall for items _____ of a list than for items _____.

According to Cowan, the capacity of short-term memory has been _____ because researchers have not controlled for _____ by participants.

According to interference theory, ​

Christine says the birthday party she just attended was a lot of fun: "We played games, had cake and ice cream, and got goodie bags." In reality, the ice cream was served with a brownie and not birthday cake. Christine's inaccurate memory MOST likely resulted from

The consolidation view suggests that after the consolidation of a long-term memory, the memory is stored in a region of the

As part of a memory test, Kiana was given a list of words 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 ​

Brock was describing the inside of his doctor's office to one of his friends. In his description, he mentioned that there were two diplomas on the wall, even though this doctor does not have any diplomas displayed. Brock's error in recall illustrates the

According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory, the memory system that allows for the sensation of a visual pattern, sound, or touch to linger for a brief moment after the sensory stimulation is over is called _____ memory.

Information is gradually converted into long-term memory codes through a hypothetical process known as _____.

Proactive interference occurs when ​

You look up the phone number of the new pizza restaurant down the street and repeat the number silently in your head until you find a pad of paper to write it down. The process of actively repeating the number is called ​

The tendency to mold our interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out is called

Meredith is trying to memorize the various eras and periods in the geologic table. She begins by memorizing the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic as three eras. She then memorizes the three periods from the Cenozoic, the three periods from the Mesozoic, and the six periods from the Paleozoic. Meredith's method of organizing the material she is trying to remember illustrates the concept of

Adrianna was skiing when she fell and hit her head. When the operators of the ski resort ask her what she was doing just before she fell, she really can't remember. Adrianna's memory loss is consistent with ​

General knowledge that is NOT tied to the time when the information was learned is contained in _____ memory.

The memory improvement strategies of elaboration, using visual imagery, and engaging in deeper processing all involve which of the following memory processes?

Krista is 28 years old. She was burned quite badly in a kitchen accident when she was 7 years old. Today, even though her parents still sometimes mention the kitchen accident, Krista has no memory of ever being burned. According to Freud, Krista may be

In which of the following levels of processing is an emphasis placed on the sounds of words?

Which of the following is NOT listed in the textbook as a method to enrich encoding of to-be-stored information?

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 _____ memory.