Exam 6: Memory

When asked to recall the date of John Kennedy's assassination, Peter draws a blank; however, when asked whether it was October 24, 1962, November 22, 1963, or February 1, 1965, he correctly answers with the second of the choices. This example most clearly demonstrates the value of ________.

The step in the memory process that actually makes our memories available to us is:

Christine has always had an unusually effective memory. She credits this to the fact that after seeing something just once, she can visualize the object in great detail, as if she was looking at a photograph of it. Christine's ability is an example of ________.

Long-term memory is thought to be organized in the form of ________.

Which of the following examples represents the shallowest processing as described by the levels of processing model?

Iconic and echoic memory are types of ________ memory.

Which memory system provides us with a very brief image of all the stimuli present at a particular moment?

Short-term memory is where information is held before conscious use of the material and is unlimited in capacity.

Flashbulb memories ________.

You try to remember a phone number by repeating it over and over to yourself. What type of rehearsal are you using?

Someone asks you to name the twenty-second president of the United States, but you can't remember. To aid your memory, the person then tells you that the president's name is the same as that of a large city on Lake Erie. Upon hearing the hint, you instantly realize that Grover Cleveland is the answer. In this situation, the hint acted as a(n) ________.

The BEST analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized would be ________.

Which of the following distinguished sensory memory (SM) from short-term memory (STM)?

Short-term memory is where information is held while it is conscious and being used.

The misinformation effect refers to the tendency of people who are asked misleading questions or given misleading information to incorporate that information into their memories of a particular event.

In the famous case of H. M., after having part of his brain removed, he could ________.

Information selected from sensory memory is transferred to conscious awareness or:

False positives occur when a person

Declarative memory can be divided into semantic memory and episodic memory.

The type of memory that is most like an encyclopedia or a dictionary is ________.