psyc module 24

recall is to recognition

Fill-in-the-blank test questions are to multiple-choice questions as:

rehearsal

From sensory memory, individuals process information into short-term memory, where they encode it through:

about seven bits of information (give or take two)

George Miller's research on short-term memory capacity indicated that we can only store ____________ in our short-term memory.

5

Harry Bahrick and his family found that the longer the space between practice sessions was, the better their retention of the foreign language word translations up to ___ years later.

foundation

Research on memory's _____ has helped us understand how memory works.

automatic processing

You hear a familiar word in your native language and it is virtually impossible not to recognize the word's meaning. This best illustrates the importance of:

digits, letter

A fill-in-the-blank test is a good example of

working

As one is reading this question right now, one is consciously processing the meaning of the words in _____ memory.

sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

In Atkinson and Shiffrin's three-stage processing model we record information in which order?

rehearsal

One way that researchers have explored short-term memory is by eliminating _____, as in the study conducted by Lloyd Peterson and Margaret Peterson.

70

Some individuals have an amazing ability to remember things. For example, Russian journalist Shereshevskii could remember up to _______ digits or words.

time, meaningful

The amount remembered depends both on the _____ spent learning and on making it _____.

visual

The peg-word system relies heavily on the use of _____ imagery.

retrieval

The process of getting information out of memory storage is called:

storage

The retention of encoded information over time is called