Cog and Behavioral

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People often report an annoying memory failure when they walk from one end of the house to the other for something...

encoding specificity

Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

I remember the big island of Hawaii has many active volcanoes

According to your text, imagery enhances memory because

Imagery can be used to create connections between items to be remembered

Learning Strategies

1. Spaced practice: study every other day 2. Retrieval Practice: quiz 3. Elaboration: ask open-ended Q's 4. Interleaving: switch b/w ideas while studying 5. Dual-Coding: combine words & visuals

The "magic number," according to Miller, is

7 plus or minus 2

The Stroop effect demonstrates

How automatic processing can interfere with intended processing

Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements

It is memory for the circumstances surrounding how a person heard about an emotional event that remains especially vivid but necessarily accurate over time.

Katie & Inez are roommates taking the same psychology class. They have a test in four days... Katie will study 1 hour, while Inez will study 3 hours in the day before the exam. What could you predict about their performance?

Katie should perform better because of the spacing effect.

Experimental evidence suggesting that the standard model of consolidation needs to be revised are data that show that the hippocampus was activated during the retrieval of ____ memories

Recent and remote episodic

According to multiple trace hypothesis, the hippocampus is involved in retrieval of

Remote, episodic memories

Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago can still be stimulated by locations .. highlight the importance of ___ in LTM

Retrieval cues

For most adults over age 40, the reminiscence bump describes enhanced memory for

adolescence and young adulthood

The misinformation effect occurs when a person's memory for an event is modified by misleading information presented

after the event

Bransford and Johnson's study had participants hear a passage which turned out to be about a man on the street serenading his girlfriend in a tall building ... The results in this study illustrated the importance of ___ in forming reliable long-term memories

an organizational context during learning

The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called

cognitive psychology

Using behavior to infer mental processes is the basic principle of

cognitive psychology

Reinforcement schedules

delivered every single target behavior

The primary effect of chunking is to

increase the efficiency of short-term emory

Scene schema is

knowledge about what is contained in a typical scene

Working memory model

phonological loop epsiodic buffer visiospatial sketchpad

The maintenance rehearsal task of learning a word by repeating it over and over again is most likely to

produce some short-term remembering, but fail to produce longer-term memories

Which of the following involves procedural memory

reading a sentence in a book

Speech Segmentation is defined as

recognizing a few words out of many when hearing a largely unfamiliar language

You have been studying for weeks for a nursing school entrance exam. You love the idea of becoming a nurse, and you hav been enjoying learning about the material for your exam. Each nigh you put on relaxing clothes and study in the quiet of your home, Memory research suggests you should take your test with a mind set

relaxed

Your friend has been sick for several days, so you go to her home to make her some chicken soup. Searching for a spoon, you first reach in a top drawer beside the dishwasher. Then, you turn to the big cupboard beside the stove to search for a pan. In your search, you have relied on a kitchen

schema

According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are

short and across several days

A person with a reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with ___ memory

short-term

... olympic rings

simplicity

Working Memory

the part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.

Cognitive Load Theory

total amt of effort being used in working memory

Asking people to recall the most influential events that happened during their college careers shows that __ in people's lives appear to be particularly memorable.

transition points


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