PHY 200 - Mod 7

The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as ________.

retrieval

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

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

Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve suggests __________.

you should review right before the test

Which of the following statements about eyewitness testimony is correct?

Eyewitness testimony is vulnerable to the power of suggestion.

_______ memory is storage of brief sensory events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes. It is very brief storage—up to a couple of seconds.

Sensory

What is the main idea of the Stroop effect?

The brain's reaction time slows when it must deal with conflicting information.

If I am looking at a snake and processing the fear caused by the snake, what part of my brain am I using?

amygdala

Which of the following is the best example of acoustic encoding?

being able to hum the tune to a song even when you can't remember the lyrics

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

The three functions of memory are________________.

encoding, storage, retrieval

Researchers demonstrated that the hippocampus functions in memory processing by creating lesions in the hippocampi of rats, which resulted in ________.

memory impairment on various tasks, such as object recognition and maze running

Which of the following is a way police have changed their interrogation techniques to lower the risk of false memory syndrome? Police have ________.

modified the way witnesses are questioned

In order to remember his lines for the play, Guy repeats his lines over and over again. This process is called ________.

rehearsal

Jason studies Spanish for three years, and then switches to Pashto. When asked to remember Spanish vocabulary he can't, instead he can only remember Pashto vocabulary. This is an example of ________ 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

Which of the following is not one of the three ways to retreive information from long-term memory?

reuse

Writing notes and definitions from the text in your own words, and relating materials to something you already know, are study examples of use of which of the following techniques?

self-reference effect

The encoding of words and their meaning is known as ________ encoding.

semantic

Elaborative rehearsal involves ________.

thinking about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory

What is procedural memory?

type of implicit memory that stores information about how to do things