Psychology Chapter 6

Which would be the most effective study method:

Use distributed practice

Of the following, which is NOT how information is transferred from short term to long term memory: Question options:

Ignoring it

Unconscious memory processing involves:

Implicit memories

Effortful encoding takes two forms. Which of the following is NOT a form of effortful encoding:

Maintenance rehearsal

If you remember how to tie your shoes, you are using a(n) _____ memory:

Procedural

Short term memory is best described as:

Small in capacity and short in duration

Placing information in a relatively permanent "warehouse" is called:

Storage

Memory of an emotional or dramatic event that was usually encoded without effort and with great detail is called:

Flashbulb memory

Proactive interference is to _____ as retroactive interference is to _____:

Forward; backward

Of the following, which is an example of knowledge that would be stored in episodic memory:

The highlights of your summer vacation

When you try to remember a list of items by associating them with a visual image of a familiar path you take to your friend's house, you are using a mnemonic device called

The method of loci

How long will information stay in short term memory if you do nothing to keep it there longer:

30 seconds or so

Emotional memories appear to be stored by the:

Amygdala

Iconic memory lasts about:

Half a second

Which part of the brain appears to be the most important of the following in storing of general memories:

Hippocampus

The phenomenon described in the previous item is the:

Serial position effect

Procedural memories appear to be stored by the:

Cerebellum

Echoic memory lasts about:

Two seconds

The major problem related to "repressed memories" is their:

Accuracy

Information in your long term memory is most likely to be in what form:

Acoustic/auditory

Elaborative rehearsal involves trying to store something in long term memory by:

Associating it with something you already have stored in long term memory

Information derived from such things as personal conversations is usually transferred into long term memory through the process of _____ encoding

Automatic

Research on retrieval cues has found that it is the _____ of associations that leads to improved recall of events or information:

Bizarreness

The amount of information that can be stored in _____ is virtually unlimited:

Both sensory memory and long term memory are correct

The wording of a question:

Can influence the reporting of eyewitness testimony

If you pay no attention to the information currently in your sensory memory that information will:

Disappear

The psychodynamic theory of forgetting is referred to as:

Decay

Which of the following is not one of the three processes of memory:

Deciphering

"This physics book is hard to understand and boring. I really have to focus on what I'm reading." This process seems to be requiring _____ encoding:

Effortful

Which type of rehearsal will most likely result in information being encoded into long term memory:

Elaborative

Information is first placed into memory in the form of mental representations through the process of:

Encoding

Your memory of your first date is an example of _____ memory:

Episodic

If you remember what you did last Friday night, you are remembering a(n):

Episodic memory

The word that best describes encoding is:

Input

The reason which suggests that people forget information because other information gets in the way and blocks its retrieval is called:

Interference

Unlike that of short term memory, the capacity of long term memory:

Is almost unlimited

When you attempt to remember the definition of a word by repeating the definition over and over again, you are using _____ rehearsal:

Maintenance

Which of the following might aid memory:

Make the information interesting Make the information relevant Make the information relate to what you already know All of the above

Carlos memorizes a list of 10 grocery items that he needs to buy later that day at the supermarket. When at the grocery store, he will have the greatest difficulty remembering the:

Ones in the middle of the list

What is the mnemonic that uses associations between number and word rhymes ("one is a bun" and so forth) and the items to be memorized:

Pegword method

The ability to recall items at the beginning of a list more easily than other items is referred to as the _____ effect:

Primacy

When old information interferes with information we are trying to learn, _____ is occurring:

Proactive interference

Your knowledge of how to brush your teeth is an example of _____ memory:

Procedural

Answering this question is a _____ task:

Recognition

Memory researchers characterize memory as:

Reconstructive

Remembering is getting information out of storage. The term _____ refers to the same process:

Retrieval

When you momentarily forget a friend's name, the function of memory that has failed is the _____ function:

Retrieval

Mary uses numerous different colors when she takes notes in her psychology. If she has difficulty with a question on an exam, she finds it helpful to remember the color of the notes relevant to the question. For Mary, the color of the notes is a(n):

Retrieval cue

If your cortex was damaged, you might not be able to:

Retrieve long term memories

If you cannot remember the names of your teachers in junior high school because the names of the teachers you have had since then are getting in the way, you have experienced:

Retroactive interference

A person without iconic memory probably wouldn't be able to remember anything that he or she:

Saw

Sensory memory helps us to:

See motion when we watch a movie Process sounds even though the sound didn't register in our consciousness Process sensations long enough to send them on to short term memory All of the above

Your knowledge of psychology is an example of _____ memory:

Semantic

The correct order for the three kinds of memory (in terms of length of storage) is:

Sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory

Which kind of memory holds seven or so items of information:

Short term memory

Which memory concept would argue that you probably shouldn't prepare for your school exams by studying in bed:

State dependent learning

Saving the paper you just wrote to the hard drive of a computer is most analogous to the _____ of new memory traces:

Storage

You are being introduced to several people in your first job interview: Ted, Julie, Benito, Dewayne, Frank and Andy. Based on the primacy effect, whose name are you most likely to remember: Question options:

Ted

The decay theory of memory:

Theorizes that memories disintegrate over time

In order to study memory and forgetting, Hermann Ebbinghaus utilized:

Three-letter nonsense syllables

Which of the following will likely improve your memory:

Using mnemonics Using elaborative rehearsal Using distributed practice All of the above

Iconic memory is the _____ as echoic memory is to _____:

Visual sensory memory; auditory sensory memory