GEN PSYCH Ch 6

which memory system has limited capacity and stores items for about 30 seconds?

short-term memory

Encoding moves information from the ________ to the _________.

short-term, long-term memory

the inability to distinguish what you originally experienced from what you heard or were old about an event later is called...

source misattribution

One objection to the three-box model of memory is that

the brain performs many independent operations simultaneously

In the "three-box model of memory," which memory system holds information for no more than a few seconds, until it can be processed further?

the sensory register

---- is an especially vivid memory of an emotional event.

a flashbulb memory

The belief that information you learned an event is an actual memory of the event is called

confabulation

what are the components of the information-processing model, in order of occurrence?

encoding, storage, retrieval

Which of the following is a test for recall?

essay questions

Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information is called:

explicit memory

Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades?

long term memory

Retrieval moves information from the ________ to the _________.

long term memory, working memory

the ----model represents the contents of memory as connections among a huge number of interacting processing units.

parallel distributed processing

which of the following is considered to be an implicit memory?

procedural memory

which of the following ways of measuring explicit memory are usually the easiest for the person being tested?

recognition