Cognitive Psychology Chapter 7 quiz

When given a list of 60 random words, people who are told to organize the words in a meaningful way remember more words than people who are told to memorize the words.

True

Transfer Appropriate Processing is different from Encoding Specificity.

False

Consolidation 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.

True

Acquiring information and transforming it into long-term memory is referred to as:

A encoding

In Godden & Baddeley's (1975) experiment, scuba divers remembered best when they retrieved a list of words in the same environment that they learned the list of words in. According to the lecture, this experiment demonstrates which type of memory?

B. context-dependent memory

According to the Levels of Processing framework, which of the following encoding techniques will result in the strongest memory trace?

B. deciding whether the word "athletic" is an accurate descriptor of yourself.

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

B. retrieval

Jeannie loves to dance, having taken ballet for many years. She is now learning salsa dancing. Although the movements are very different from the dances she is familiar with, she has found a successful memory strategy of linking the new dance information to her previous experiences as a dancer and to her own affection for dance. This strategy suggests reliance on the:

C. self-reference effect

The standard model of consolidation proposes that the hippocampus is:

C. strongly active when memories are first formed and being consolidated but becomes less active when retrieving older memories that are already consolidated

The finding that memory is better when we create associations ourselves than it is when we simply read associations provided to us is known as the:

D. generation effect