Chapter 7 Questions

Consider the word Mississippi. Which of these questions asks you to process that word at the deepest level of processing?

Is this word the name of a river?

Your professor wants to give you advice based on the "testing effect." What is he likely to say?

Quiz yourself after you finish reading each chapter!

At the start of each exam, Sarah reads over the full set of questions to determine which ones she feels pretty sure she'll get right. To make these judgments, Sarah is using

metamemory

Karl Lashley carried out his search for the engram by training rats on mazes and then removing different amounts of the

cortex

You've just memorized a list of nonsense words. You are going to try to recall the words every day for the next 30 days (without looking back at the list). You would expect to show the most forgetting between.

day 1 and day 2

At her school's talent show, Noa answers questions about politics while spinning basketballs on her fingers. The question and answering mostly require ________ memory, whereas the ball spinning mostly requires _________ memory.

declarative; procedural

To demonstrate the capacity of iconic memory, George Sperling showed that participants performed better with the ___________ procedure

partial-report

Alois Alzheimer was able to demonstrate that

people who died of Alzheimer's disease had plaques in their brains

If you were asked to identify the brain bases of the encoding and retrieval of episodic memories, you should point to the

prefrontal cortex

After Meghan meets a group of people, she can remember the name of only the last person she met. This is an example of a(n) _____________ effect.

recency

Because of the usefulness of the retrieval cues, ______________ is usually easier than _______________.

recognition; recall

Mark looks a number up in the phone book, but he forgets it before he has a chance to make the call. It sounds like Mark should have spent more effort on

rehearsal

When you enter a restaurant to enjoy a meal, you'll probably put a memory structure known as a(n) _______________ to good use.

script

Which of these is not a component of working memory?

the iconic memory buffer

Pavel needs to learn the order of the planets with respect to their distance from the sun. To begin, he imagines mercury as a giant bun and Venus shaped like a shoe. It sounds like Pavel is using

the peg-word method