Exam 6: Memory

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

Scott remembers all of the details of his wedding seven years ago. This information is most likely stored in ________ memory.

In the levels-of-processing model of memory, information that gets processed at a ________ level (such as accessing the meaning of a word or phrase) is more likely to be retained longer and form a stronger memory than information that is processed at a ________ level (such as the visual characteristics of a word).

Information that has been transferred out of sensory memory enters:

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village, after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains, he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name. The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is ________.

If one wants to increase the capacity of short-term memory, more items can be held through the process of ________.

What "magic number" did Miller find to be the capacity of short-term memory?

Under most circumstances, when you are intentionally trying to remember an item of information, ________ is an easier task than ________.

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

Chunking is a means of ________.

Declarative memories are to ________ memories as nondeclarative memories are to ________ memories.

Iconic memory allows us to remember the beginnings of sentences long enough to have meaningful conversations.

In one study, over 2,500 photographs were shown to participants, one every 10 seconds. Participants were then shown pairs of photographs in which one member of each pair was one of the previously seen photographs. Accuracy for identifying the previously seen photos was ________.

Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ________ rehearsal.

Keisha can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that her roommate just read to her over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. Her memory of things at the end of the list demonstrates the ________.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ________.

Believers in the information-processing model of memory are likely to agree that ________.

An echo usually stays in the sensory registers for ________.

Constructive processing is the process of altering memories of the past so that they are more positive.

According to the semantic network model, it would take less time to answer "true" to which sentence?