Chapter 7 Learning Curves

Committing information to memory after already learning new material is analogous to _____ clutter in your mental attic.

adding

Whether of not repressed memories can be retrieved by certain therapists - aided techniques is:

debated

The sense that you may have seen this same question before. Yes, the same question you are reading, is known as ______.

deja vu

Studying for your psychology test requires ______. It takes attention and conscious effort but pays off with lasting and accessible memories.

effortful processing

The _____ is the neural center involved in processing explicit memories for storage.

hippocampus

Our unconscious capacity for learning how to do something is known as ______.

implicit memory

This prolonged strengthening of potential neural firing is believed to be the basis for learning and memory and is known as:

long-term potentiation

The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that encoding and retrieval involved ______.

memory construction

Our ability to recognize material can make us feel _____, which might lead to poorer performance on certain tests.

overconfident

______ are to real perceptions as false memories are to real memories.

perceptual illusions

A multiple- choice test is a good example of ______.

recognition

Recalling a visual scene of last month's party and holding it in working memory would be MOST likely to activate the:

right frontal lobe

In Atkinson and Shiffrin's three-stage processing model we record information in which order?

sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory

Kamal suffers from depression and is currently in treatment. His physician is using electroconvulsive therapy which will effect his ______ memory.

short-term

Using nonsense syllabus to study memory, Hermann Ebbighgaus found that:

the most rapid memory loss for new information occurs shortly after it is learned

According to _____, one reason that people forget is because they are representing painful memories.

Freud

One reason our memories fail is because of problems with information:

encoding

The processing information into the memory system is called:

encoding

Carlos remembers very clearly the day his best friend died in a bicycle accident at the hands of a drunk driver. This best illustrates ______ memory.

flashbulb