Cog Psych Final - Chp 7

Free recall of the stimulus list "apple, desk, shoe, sofa, plum, chair, cherry, coat, lamp, pants" will most likely yield which of these response patterns?

Apple, cherry, plum, shoe, coat, lamp, chair, pants

____ transforms new memories from a fragile state, in which they can be disrupted, to a more permanent state, in which they are resistant to disruption.

Consolidation

Which statement below is most closely associated with levels of processing theory?

Deep processing involves paying closer attention to a stimulus than shallow processing and results in better processing.

How would you describe the relationship between elaborative rehearsal and maintenance rehearsal in terms of establishing long-term memories?

Elaborative is more effective than maintenance

People often report an annoying memory failure when they walk from one end of the house to the other for something and then forgetting what they went to retrieve when they reach their destination. As soon as they return to the first room, they are reminded of what they wanted in the first place. This common experience best illustrates the principle of...

Encoding specificity

The story in the text about the balloons that were used to suspend a speaker in mid-air was used to illustrate the role of _____ in memory.

Organization

In the famous obedience research conducted by Stanley Milgram, a participants was instructed to read a list of word pairs to another person. The participant would then read the list again but would only provide the first word. The other individual was to recall the word that went with this cueing word. This is an example of

Paired-associate learning

______ cues help us remember information that has been stored in memory.

Retrieval

Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is ______

encoding

Hebb's idea of long-term potentiation, which provides a physiological mechanism for the long-term storage of memories, includes the idea of

increased firing in the neurons