Exam 9: Memory

A person who can accurately describe what she has worn every day of her life since the age of three would most likely be considered a(n) _______.

Long-term potentiation refers to

Differentiate between declarative and nondeclarative memory with examples from your life.

You stop after reading two or three paragraphs of a magazine article to think about what you have read before continuing on. By doing so, you are trying to put the material into your _______ memory.

Which statement correctly defends the assertion that procedural memory does not stop with learning how to do a particular task?

Describe a situation in which the way a witness is questioned in a police investigation would lead to the misinformation effect.

A question that asks you to remember something, while at the same time giving you information about the answer, is a(n) _______ question.

You associate each line of a poem that you need to memorize with a particular object in your dorm room. This is an example of aiding your memory via

In a _______ test, a subject is presented with a sample stimulus. After a short delay, the sample stimulus is shown again along with a novel alternative. The subject is rewarded for selecting the novel stimulus.

Early studies of short-term memory by Brown and Peterson showed that information in short-term memory vanishes in about 20 seconds unless you

Long-term potentiation is the term neuroscientists use to describe long-lasting

Which is an example of a nondeclarative memory?

The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon describes the experience of believing that you

Which situation describes the phenomenon of retroactive interference?

Though some people use the term short-term memory to refer to memory for recent events, like weekend plans, psychologists use the term to refer to memory that is limited in

The words cat and dog will likely be more strongly connected in a(n) _______ than the words cat and ladder.

Many people can recall very vividly what they were doing when they learned of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. This is an example of

The ability to recall only what was presented at the end of a lecture is an example of the _______ effect.

Short-term memory is now discussed by psychologists in terms of a system that keeps memories available during performance. This is also known as _______ memory.

Retrieval is the process of