PSY 101 Chapter 7

Pseudoforgetting

___ would best explain your behavior if as you are reading this question you can not think of the correct term and you say to yourself "I can't believe I forgot this" when in reality you never know the answer in the first place

short-term

when you listen to a lecture, the information is held in ___ memory until you write it in your notes

episodic memory

Dave is reminiscing about the first car he owned in high school and how he felt the first time he drove it through town. This information is stored in his

retrograde amnesia

Mike is thrown from his motorcycle and suffers a severe blow to the head, resulting in loss of memory for events that occurred before the accident. this is an example of

storage

Shayla is able to retain the vocabulary she learned in her first semester Spanish class after the class has ended. The main memory process that accounts for the fact that Shayla can hold information in her memory for extended periods of time is

recall

a history teacher who asks his students to state from memory the first ten amendments to the US COnstitution is assessing retention by using the ___ method

phonemically

as part of a memory test X was given a list of words that include dog, pail and hate. Later he recalled these words as lod, whale and late. X's errors in recall suggest that he has encoded the original word list

the serial-position effect

children often have difficulty remembering the letter sin the middle of the alphabet because of

retrospective memory

during a psych test you are trying to remember something your instructor said in class last week, you are using what researchers call

context cues

when you attempt to recall the name of a high school classmate by imagining yourself back in English class with her, you are making use of

the visuospatial sketchpad

when you mentally picture the road between your house and school, you are relying on which component of working memory

retroactive interference

you move to a new house and memorize your new address but now you can't remember your old address. this is an example of