Psychology - Chapter 7 Quiz

In a memory experiment, Group A is asked to listen to a list of words. Group B is asked to count the number of e's in the words. Group C is asked to use each word in a sentence. According to the levels of processing model, ________ will remember the most words because ________.

Group C; Elaborative rehearsal

Lisa is driving to school when she sees a yellow traffic light ahead. According to the three-part model of memory storage, Lisa will first maintain information about the yellow light in her

Sensory storage

You have been away attending college for three months. When you return home for the winter break, your family dog recognized you immediately. Your dog responded this way because his brain

assess the information already stored in his brain about what you look like

Fatima is a new student on campus. Everywhere she goes, she is asked for her 12-digitstudent number. To memorize her new student number, she thinks of it as three different years. Fatima is using ________ to aid her memory.

chunking

The increased ability to retrieve memories that occurs when the encoding environment and the recall environment are the same is called

context-dependent memory

Sue and Mary are talking about knitting. Sue is trying to remember the first time she ever knitted. Mary is trying to remember what the word knitting means. Sue is trying to recall a(n) ________ memory and Mary is trying to recall a(n) ________ memory.

episodic; semantic

The type of memory that is associated with the conscious recollection of previous experiences is referred to as ________ memory.

explicit

Short-term storage has a(n)

limited capacity

Morgan is currently taking a course on public speaking. Next year, she will most likely remember only general facts from the course, because semantic information is maintained in

long term storage

Professor Smith refuses to learn his students' names because he believes the names will take up space in his memory that he needs to store research-related information. Professor Smith's belief about his memory is INCORRECT because

long-term storage holds virtually unlimited amounts of information

Elaborative rehearsal is a more effective memory strategy than maintenance rehearsal because the information is processed

more deeply

Teresa's house was destroyed when Hurricane Michael hit Florida. The memory of how she had to run back to the house to rescue her dog keeps coming to her mind even though she very much wants to get rid of that memory. Teresa is most likely experiencing

persistence in memory

Tami's father used to roller skate as a child but has not skated for many years. When he goes skating with Tami he will most likely remember how to skate due to his ________ memory.

procedural

For the past two weeks, Manuel has been studying for an upcoming psychology exam. Even though he read the textbook carefully every day while studying, during the exam, he could not recall the material regarding how psychologists studied the mental processes of memory. Manuel most likely experienced a problem in the ________ process of memory.

retrieval

Addie told Callum her top 10 favorite movies. When he tries to recall the list later on, he can only remember the last two movies Addie mentioned. The fact that Callum only remembers the last two movies is most likely due to

the recency effect