Exam 6: Memory Processes

__________ interference is caused by an activity occurring after we learn something,but before we are asked to recall that thing.

One model proposes that three processes are involved in searching short-term memory.If the processes occur simultaneously,the model uses which type of processing?

Jennifer cannot remember where she heard that pigs were very intelligent animals.Roger thinks he read in The Sunday Herald that Death Valley is the warmest spot in the United States;however,he really read about Death Valley in Outside Magazine.These memory lapses are examples of

Linton's self study of autobiographical memory found that her rate of forgetting events was

__________ refers to how you transform a physical,sensory input into a kind of representation that can be placed into memory.

Imagine a world in which encoding in long-term memory was not primarily semantic,but rather was visual or tactile.What might subjective organization in free recall be like in such cases?

The process of taking new information and integrating it with stored information in long term memory is called

If you were an expert memory consultant for a jury trial,what information would you share with the jury about memory? What factors might influence what you tell the jury?

Mnemonic devices are best described as

In general,as the amount of learning prior to recall increases,__________ increases.

What is autobiographical memory?

Compare the two main theories of forgetting-decay theory and interference theory-and identify their strengths and weaknesses.

This type of memory is for events that have occurred in the past.

The processes of encoding,storage,and retrieval __________ with each other and are __________.

Based on what you know about distributed learning and encoding specificity,how could students manage their study time so that they could maximally recall the material studied?

Encoding of information in the long-term store is not exclusively __________.There also is evidence for __________ encoding.

Research shows that encoding in short-term memory is primarily

A typical serial position curve shows that recall of words in a list is best for items __________ of the list and poorest for items __________.

In an exhaustive serial processing search of short-term memory,people generally take __________ amount(s)of time to find a target __________.

__________ refers to how you retain encoded information in memory.