psyc module 24
recall is to recognition
Fill-in-the-blank test questions are to multiple-choice questions as:
rehearsal
From sensory memory, individuals process information into short-term memory, where they encode it through:
about seven bits of information (give or take two)
George Miller's research on short-term memory capacity indicated that we can only store ____________ in our short-term memory.
5
Harry Bahrick and his family found that the longer the space between practice sessions was, the better their retention of the foreign language word translations up to ___ years later.
foundation
Research on memory's _____ has helped us understand how memory works.
automatic processing
You hear a familiar word in your native language and it is virtually impossible not to recognize the word's meaning. This best illustrates the importance of:
digits, letter
A fill-in-the-blank test is a good example of
working
As one is reading this question right now, one is consciously processing the meaning of the words in _____ memory.
sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
In Atkinson and Shiffrin's three-stage processing model we record information in which order?
rehearsal
One way that researchers have explored short-term memory is by eliminating _____, as in the study conducted by Lloyd Peterson and Margaret Peterson.
70
Some individuals have an amazing ability to remember things. For example, Russian journalist Shereshevskii could remember up to _______ digits or words.
time, meaningful
The amount remembered depends both on the _____ spent learning and on making it _____.
visual
The peg-word system relies heavily on the use of _____ imagery.
retrieval
The process of getting information out of memory storage is called:
storage
The retention of encoded information over time is called