Exam 7: Human Memory

Dennis is reminiscing about the trip he took with his parents to visit the house where his father grew up. He can still remember the wide front porch with the swing and the big trees in the backyard. As Dennis recalls this trip, he is relying on his _____ memory.

Recent research suggests that strong motivation to remember something may actually enhance memory, but only if the motivation is present at the time of ​

Ten-year-old Kylee is trying to remember the capital of North Carolina. Her father tells her to think of the letter "R," and she quickly comes up with Raleigh. In this case, Kylee's memory was assisted using ​

The concept of motivated forgetting is based largely on the work of which of the following early psychologists? ​

During a party, Michael talked to a friend about the symbolism involved in a recent movie. Michael attributed the explanation of the symbolism to a prominent movie critic, when actually he heard it from his roommate. This example illustrates which of the following phenomena?

Decay theory suggests that forgetting is due to ​

Corbin is convinced that he remembers the material from his text much better when he studies for 3 hours straight through on the night before the exam, rather than when he studies for 30 minutes each night on 6 consecutive nights. Corbin's experience is NOT consistent with memory research that has documented the effectiveness of ​

A personal trait that is influenced by heredity and appears to play a role in intelligence and musical ability is

In regard to the recovered memory controversy, psychologists who rely on research on the misinformation effect are MOST likely to

Overconfidence in recalling information is MOST likely to be fueled by which of the following errors in thinking?

The fact that recall by eyewitnesses can be distorted by information introduced after the event by police officers, attorneys, etc., is BEST explained by which of the following?

Which of the following memory stores can hold the FEWEST pieces of information?

Ruben and Maya are describing their recent trip to Brazil. They describe all the interesting things they did while they were there and all the interesting people that they met. In describing their trip, Ruben and Maya are largely relying on their _____ memory.

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.

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

Imagine that researchers find some memories are lost very quickly, while other memories last much longer. This evidence would create the MOST problems for the _____ theory of forgetting.

Research by George Miller suggested that the capacity of short-term memory is about _____ chunks of information.

The answers on a vocabulary test are MOST likely to be contained in your _____ memory system.

Distinguish between declarative and nondeclarative memory, and semantic and episodic memory, and explain how these are interrelated.

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