Exam 6: Memory

Someone a short distance away, to whom we have been paying no attention, quietly speaks your name, and suddenly you are attending to that conversation. This is an example of ________.

Information that was either unintentionally committed to or unintentionally retried from memory is known as ________.

Our visual sensation of a passing automobile would be initially stored in ________.

Personal facts and memories of one's personal history are parts of ________ memory.

The TOT is:

The most influential researcher into eyewitness memory has been ________.

When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list. This is known as the ________.

In the information processing model of memory, the process of encoding would be analogous to which part of a modern computer?

Godden and Baddeley found that if you study on land, you do better when tested on land, and if you study underwater, you do better when tested underwater. This finding is an example of ________.

People with Alzheimer's disease typically have a memory problem known as ________.

Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ________.

Recalling the definition of long-term memory is an example of ________ memory.

For which famous memory researcher is memory a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event, and the memory is the solution to that problem?

Your tutor has "one last word" for you before she ends today's session. She tells you to study material in the middle of your study session a little harder. What concept from memory research is the basis of her advice?

Which type of memory allows us to have meaningful conversations?

A visual image held in the sensory register is ________.

Researchers using MRI scanning have found that ________.

The key to the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory was to ________.

What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory experiments?

Which of the following might be the most appropriate analogy for eidetic imagery?