Exam 9: Memory

Carlo cannot remember the title of his favourite director's last film. He can only remember the title of the film before the last one. What process of forgetting is affecting Carlo's memory?

While playing Trivial Pursuit, Jessica remembered that Abraham Lincoln had a history of depression. Memory of a piece of general historical knowledge is considered a _________ memory.

Sensory, short-term, and long-term memory are often referred to as memory _________.

Which reflex is normally used to study classical conditioning in humans?

What is the 'levels of processing effect'?

Define "chunking" and explain how this concept reveals that working memory cannot hold more than 7 plus or minus 2 words/numbers.

Which of the following types of memory has less capacity compared to the others?

Pretend that you are a contestant on a new game show and that you are asked to remember the names of all the students in your kindergarten class. Every classmate that you remember correctly increases your monetary prize. The host asks you to write down the names of every student you remember. This is an example of a _______ memory task.

According to Craik's environmental support framework, which memory task is more dependent on environmental support?

Priming is often used __________, where people are given cues that affect future actions without them being aware of it.

Which of the following materials was used by Ebbinghaus to study memory?

In the Squire diagram of memory systems implicit memory is hierarchically higher up than conditioning.

Discuss why memory cannot be compared to a videotape.

According to Squire's hierarchy of memory, which of the following memory system is higher up in the hierarchy?

According to the multistore model of memory, ________is the first stage in which an image is retained by the brain for less than 1 second.

What technology allows to stimulate specific parts of the brain with mild electrical impulses via a device implanted in the patient's brain?

According to your textbook, which of the following scientists first proposed that memory could be measured by scientific means?

With reference to the Craik's environmental support framework, which of the following sequences of tasks correctly identifies the environmental support on the task from high to low?

How can the separation of the three modules in Baddeley and Hitch's original model of working memory be tested in experiments?

__________ describes the action that a piece of information has on another.