psy final 6

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?

categorization

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

It is analogous to a biochemical "hard drive."

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

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

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 her experiences. This could be an example of which concept of memory?

elaboration

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.

hierarchy

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

iconic

How to perform different skills and actions is a component of _________.

implicit memory

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

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

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

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

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?

prospective memory

retrospective memory

remembering information from the past

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 ____________.

retrieval cue failure

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?

retrospective

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

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

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 __________.

the serial position affect

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

dissociative amnesia