Exam 7: Human Memory

As Kayla was introduced to the seven members of the committee who would be interviewing her for a scholarship,she silently repeated all the names to herself,in order.Kayla was using

The memory system that has an almost unlimited storage capacity is

Frances is daydreaming during her botany class,and has not been listening to the lecture at all.She is suddenly aware that her professor has just called her name,and is waiting for her to respond to a question that has been asked.Incidents of this type lend support to

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

Kwan is driving to campus and his phone rings,based on the results of studies on divided attention,should Kwan answer the phone?

____________________ memory involves remembering events from the past or previously learned information.

Cindy is watching her little sister as she skips rope.As long as the rope is turning,all Cindy can see is a blur of color.She can only make out the shape of the skipping rope when her sister stops skipping.The "blurred" image that Cindy sees while the rope is moving results from the way in which

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

Curtis has been testing a new software package for the past two months.However,he decides not to switch and he goes back to using his old software.Unfortunately,he is now having some problems in recalling how to do certain tasks with the old software,and often finds himself trying to do things the way he did with the new software he was testing.Curtis' problems illustrate the effects of

Savings scores are associated with the ____ method of measuring forgetting.

Martin can't remember who invented flush toilets because he was flirting with a classmate when his history professor described this momentous event.His forgetting appears to be due to

Practicing material already learned in order to improve retention is referred to as

Information in long term memory has been shown to be organized in simple categories or multilevel classification systems called schemas.

The ability of people to "juggle" information in working memory in order to reason and make decisions is handled by the ____ component of working memory.

Remembering to perform actions in the future involves

Norm is studying for his law exam.While he is studying,he is trying to think of as many examples as he can to illustrate key ideas.In this case,Norm is using

Research evidence from studies that have investigated prospective memory suggests that,compared to time-based tasks,event-based tasks are generally more easily remembered.

The link method of encoding is the best method to use when it is important for items to be remembered in a specific order.

Two students took a memory test.Twenty nouns were shown sequentially on a TV monitor.Mallory tried to think of rhymes for each word as it appeared on the monitor.Bailey tried to think of ways each word could be used in a sentence.Based on Craik and Lockhart's levels-of-processing theory,you should predict that