Psychology Chapter 8

The STM range is:

5-9

Which of the following statements about eyewitness testimony is correct?

Eyewitness testimony is vulnerable to the power of suggestion.

Who developed the misinformation effect paradigm?

Loftus

Encoding information occurs through ________.

automatic processing and effortful processing

For many in the baby-boom generation, the Kennedy assassination represents a ________, an exceptionally clear recollection of an important event.

flashbulb memory

Forgetting occurs fastest in:

sensory memory

Remembering ________ is a good example of episodic memory.

your first day of school

Hyperthymesia is:

the ability to remember every detail of one's life

Which of the following is an example of a mnemonic device?

using the acronym "HOMES" to remember the names of the five Great Lakes

Which only lasts for about 15-30 seconds?

STM

Felipe looks over his presentation, and he notices that some of the words are written in bold and some are written in italic. His ability to remember these differences is an example of ________ encoding.

Visual

The magic number associated with STM is:

none of the above

Elena finds it very difficult to remember a long string of numbers, so she tries to memorize three numbers at a time. Later, she is able to repeat the numbers correctly because she grouped the numbers into more manageable groups of three. This is an example of ________.

chunking

Remembering ________ is a good example of procedural memory.

how to use the phone

What is semantic memory?

knowledge about words, concepts, and language-based knowledge and facts

Sally cannot remember her new phone number. She can only remember her old phone number. This is termed:

proactive interference

Mike gets a new cell phone. He can't remember his old cell number. He can only remember his new cell number. This is___interference.

retroactive

When experiencing ________ amnesia, you experience loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma. When experiencing ________ amnesia, you cannot remember new information.

retrograde; anterograde

Repeating something over and over again so as to keep it active in STM is termed:

rote rehearsal

What is the tendency for an individual to have better memory for information that relates to oneself in comparison to material that has less personal relevance?

self-reference effect