PSY 1010 Chapter 6

Dana can only remember the first few and the last few items on her grocery list. Which of the following is this an example of?

The serial-position effect

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

Determine whether and for how long information is retained in memory.

Jason, while standing on the deck of a ship, is trying to memorize distant landmarks to the harbor entrance; he is trying to create a mental picture of all the names. He is using __

A visual code

At a painting exhibition, Martha admired a painting that depicted a farm. Half an hour later, when she having lunch with a friend, Martha was able to recall several details depicted in the painting. She remembered correctly the colors that were used, the animals that were drawn, and even the number of trees in the painting. Martha's ability to remember these details is known as __.

Eidetic imagery

The __ is an assumed electrical circuit that corresponds to a memory trace.

Engram

Jonah loves learning new languages. In high-school, he learned French and in college, he learned Italian. Sometimes, when he is trying to remember Italian words, French words come to mind instead. This is an example of __.

Proactive Interference

A person's ability to recall a historic event, like the American Civil War of 1861-65, would be an example of __.

Semantic Memory

Information that is better retrieved in the physiological or emotional state in which it was encoded and stored, or learned, is known as __.

State-dependent memory

In the context of Long-term memory, which of the following statements is true of flashbulb memory?

Stimuli that stand out are preserved in detail in a person's long-term memory.

Which of the following is true about the storage of information in long-term memory?

We tend to organize information according to a hierarchical structure.

Which of the following is true about the serial-position effect?

It is the tendency to recall more accurately the first and last items on a list.

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.

The __ is vital in storing new information even if one can retrieve old information without it.

Hippocampus