PSY chpt. 6 quiz

photographic

According to your text, if you have adequate sight you also have what kind of memory?

retrieval cue failure

After telling the police officer everything she could recall about when she went into the bank, Lucas got to the point that he no longer could recall any more information. At that point, Lucas was most likely experiencing ____________.

the serial-position effect

Although Crystal had practiced her presentation several times before class, she struggled in the middle part of the speech when she gave it in class. This pattern of forgetting illustrates __________.

Prospective memory

Because of her poor health, your Aunt B had to take a lot of medication. She usually does a good job remembering to take it but sometimes forgets to do so. This forgetting is a failure of what type of memory?

memory storage systems of humans are indexed according to both visual and audio cues.

Brown and McNeill's experiment on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon revealed that:

retrospective

Clive Wearing could remember how to play the piano, but couldn't remember his birthday party that occurred last year. His inability to remember events from the past is an example of deficits in which type of memory?

recall

Essay test are examples of ____________.

information that can be clearly stated:

Explicit memory is:

implicit memory

How to preform different skills and actions is a component of _____________.

hippocampus

If the _________ is damaged, a person has difficulty forming new memories.

categorization

In order to better remember the information from his psychology text, Sheldon groups concepts into various categories and then studies those categories one at a time. Sheldon is using what type of memory strategy?

infants do not make reliable use of language to symbolize or classify events.

In the context of memory and forgetting, one of the cognitive explanations for infantile amnesia states that:

hierarchy

In the context of organization in long-term memory, a(n) ___________ is an arrangement of items into groups or classes according to common or distinct features.

Implicit memory

Knowing how to play a piano without much conscious effort illustrates ___________ memory.

determine whether and for how long information is retained in memory

The Atkinson-Shiffrin model of stages of memory intends to _____________.

the person's mood at the time a memory is encoded and retrieved.

The critical factor in state-dependent retrieval is the influence of:

iconic

The flow of visual information seems smooth and continuous because of _________ memory, which can hold visual stimuli for up to a second.

elaboration

When Angelica studies for her college classes, she actively thinks about the new information, thinks about its applications, and tries to generate her own examples based on experiences. This could be an example of which concept of memory?

It is analogous to a biochemical "hard drive."

Which of the following statements is true about long-term memory?

Dissociative amnesia

____________ is the loss of memory of personal information that is thought to stem from psychological conflict or trauma.