PSY 328 (Cog. Psych) Test 4: CHP 6-7

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According to your text, which of the following movies is LEAST accurate in its portrayal of a memory problem?

50 First Dates

Why is classical conditioning considered a form of implicit memory?

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

Which of the following involves procedural memory?

Reading a sentence in a book

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

Retrieval

The inability to assimilate or retain new knowledge is known as?

anterograde amnesia

Memory for a word will tend to be better if the word is used in a complex sentence (like ?the bicycle was blue, with high handlebars and a racing seat?) rather than a simple sentence (like ?he rode the bicycle?). This probably occurs because the complex sentence

creates more connections

According to the levels of processing theory, memory durability depends on how information is

encoded

Acquiring information and transforming it into memory is

encoding

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

encoding specificity

One of the defining properties of the experience of episodic memory is that

it involves mental time travel

This multiple choice question is an example of a ____ test.

recognition

Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by

repeating it over and over

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 LTM.

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

Shallow processing of a word is encouraged when attention is focused on

the number of vowels in a word

Memory enhancement due to conceptual priming is a result of

the test stimulus being similar in meaning to the priming stimulus

Memory enhancement due to repetition priming is a result of?

the test stimulus being the same or resembling the priming stimulus

Memory performance is enhanced if the type of task at encoding matches the type of task at retrieval. This is called?

transfer-appropriate processing

The defining characteristic of implicit memory is that

we are not conscious we are using it


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