LearningCurve Module 23
When Lisa earns a perfect score on a(n) _____ test in history, she passes a _____ test of memory.
essay; recall
Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. However, the longer he plays the course the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the difference in _____ and _____.
explicit memory; implicit memory
Professor Wallace studies memory in people who have had strokes. Professor Hansen studies people who claim to have clear memories of events that happened over three decades ago. Such research on the extremes of memory:
helps us to understand how memory works.
Research conducted by George Sperling showed that people have something akin to a fleeting photographic memory. This _____ memory provides a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli, like a picture image, that lasts only a few tenths of a second.
iconic
Walking past a classroom's open door, Michael overhears an instructor say, "In the next unit, we will explore how information is acquired, stored, and retrieved for later use." Michael realizes that the next unit must be about:
memory
Through conscious repetition of information in short-term memory, we can encode information for long-term storage. This is known as _____.
rehearsal
Gina adequately studied for her short-answer psychology exam. However, while taking the final she could not remember the material she previously retained. According to the computer information-processing model of memory, Gina is having difficulty with _____.
retrieval
Selecting just a few aspects of all the environmental information that is being very briefly registered is a process that initially occurs in _____ memory.
sensory
Millie has been having difficulties remembering what people have just said. She is unable to follow along during her favorite television shows. Millie is having difficulty with her _____ memory.
short-term
Based on the _____ effect, _____ practice leads to better learning than _____ practice does.
spacing; distributed; massed