Psych 101- Chapter 8

When asked to memorize the 15 letters, C I A C B S A B C F B I I R S, Mary reorganized them into CIA, CBS, ABC, FBI, and IRS. Mary used a tactic called:

chunking

one's first kiss is an example of one's ___________ _________

episodic memory

frontal lobes play a key role in the _____________ memory system

explicit

the hippocampus play a key role in the _____________ memory system

explicit

TRUE OR FALSE: experiments found that people expand their overall working memory with training

false

Some of our memories of an emotionally significant moment or event are vividly clear. These are known as ____________ memories

flashbulb

Henry decided to organize what he is studying by paying attention to chapter outlines, headings, objectives, learning outcomes, and test questions. This BEST illustrates the use of:

hierarchical organization

one's memory for one's most embarrassing moment is to one's anxious reaction to a blood test as the brain's ______________ and ___________ ________ are to its ____________ _________ and _______________

hippocampus (and) frontal lobes, basal ganglia (and) cerebellum

Nine-year-old Jade has just discovered something very interesting. She can look at a picture in a book, and when she closes her eyes, she can still see the picture very clearly for a few tenths of a second. Jade is experiencing _____ memory. Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. Answer choices

iconic

memory can be formally defined as the mental process that enables us to ________, __________, and __________ information

learn, store, retrieve

________ ___________ is NOT an effective effortful processing strategy to better remember information.

massed practice

Fergus Craik and Endel Tulving found that deep processing, by an item's _________, produced better recognition

meaning

While taking his statistics exam, Charles is trying to remember a statistical formula that he studied the night before. However, he cannot seem to recall the correct information. Charles is failing to _____ information from his long-term memory.

retrieve

Jonny suffered hippocampal damage from a near-fatal bus crash. He is able to remember verbal information but has no ability to recall visual designs and locations. He has MOST likely suffered damage to his __________________ _______________

right hippocampus

information in _________ memory lasts only a fraction of a second to several seconds

sensory

at a party, marci meets nine new neighbours. Moments later, she can remember the names of only the first three and last two neighbours she met. Her experience illustrates the ____________ ___________ effect

serial position

Both _____ and _____ are relatively poor effortful processing strategies with respect to the effect on the retention of the material that one is encoding as one studies.

shallow processing, massed practice

if you just had an argument with your significant other, you are likely to view them very negatively as a person. This is BEST seen as reflecting: ________-___________ _____________

state-dependent memory

The textbook uses the term "memoryless memory" to refer to priming because priming is a type of ___________ memory

implicit

basal ganglia play a key role in the _____________ memory system

implicit

the cerebellum plays a key role in the _____________ memory system

implicit

_________ memory refers to our memory for intended future actions

prospective

Tarik has a chemistry test in 2 days. He has to memorize the elements on the periodic table, so he writes them on index cards. He keeps the cards with him at all times and periodically reads through them. Tarik is using _____ to encode information in short-term memory for longer-term storage.

rehearsal

concussions and electroconvulsive therapy are MOST likely to result in the elimination of memories from ________________ memory

working