Cognitive Psych Test 2

Retrograde amnesia is usually less severe for ______ memories.

remote

Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by

repeating it over and over.

Treatment of PTSD has benefitted from recent research on

reconsolidation.

Why is classical conditioning considered a form of implicit memory?

Because it involves learning an association without being aware of the reasons behind it.

___________ memories are to experiences as ___________ memories are to facts.

Episodic; semantic

___________ cues help us remember information that has been stored in memory.

Retrieval

Which of the following is NOT an example of an implicit memory? Semantic memory Repetition priming Classical conditioning Procedural memory

Semantic memory

From a cognitive psychology perspective, memories from specific experiences in our life are defined as being ________.

autobiographical

Murdoch's "remembering a list" experiment described the serial position curve and found that memory is best for ___________ of a list.

both the first and last words

Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is

encoding

Work with brain-injured patients reveals that ___________ memory does not depend on conscious memory.

implicit and procedural

One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that

people are not conscious they are using it.

Lucille is teaching Kendra how to play racquetball. She explains how to hold the racquet, how to stand, and how to make effective shots. These learned skills that Lucille has acquired are an example of ___________ memory.

procedural

The primacy effect is attributed to

recall of information stored in long-term memory.

Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago, can be stimulated by locations, songs, and smells highlight the importance of ___________ in long-term memory.

retrieval cues

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

short and across several days.

The propaganda effect demonstrates that we evaluate familiar statements as being true

simply because we have been exposed to them before.

The principle that we encode information together with its context is known as encoding

specificity.

___________ transforms new memories from a fragile state, in which they can be disrupted, to a more permanent state, in which they are resistant to disruption.

transfer-appropriate