Chapter 7 Learning Curves
Committing information to memory after already learning new material is analogous to _____ clutter in your mental attic.
adding
Whether of not repressed memories can be retrieved by certain therapists - aided techniques is:
debated
The sense that you may have seen this same question before. Yes, the same question you are reading, is known as ______.
deja vu
Studying for your psychology test requires ______. It takes attention and conscious effort but pays off with lasting and accessible memories.
effortful processing
The _____ is the neural center involved in processing explicit memories for storage.
hippocampus
Our unconscious capacity for learning how to do something is known as ______.
implicit memory
This prolonged strengthening of potential neural firing is believed to be the basis for learning and memory and is known as:
long-term potentiation
The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that encoding and retrieval involved ______.
memory construction
Our ability to recognize material can make us feel _____, which might lead to poorer performance on certain tests.
overconfident
______ are to real perceptions as false memories are to real memories.
perceptual illusions
A multiple- choice test is a good example of ______.
recognition
Recalling a visual scene of last month's party and holding it in working memory would be MOST likely to activate the:
right frontal lobe
In Atkinson and Shiffrin's three-stage processing model we record information in which order?
sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
Kamal suffers from depression and is currently in treatment. His physician is using electroconvulsive therapy which will effect his ______ memory.
short-term
Using nonsense syllabus to study memory, Hermann Ebbighgaus found that:
the most rapid memory loss for new information occurs shortly after it is learned
According to _____, one reason that people forget is because they are representing painful memories.
Freud
One reason our memories fail is because of problems with information:
encoding
The processing information into the memory system is called:
encoding
Carlos remembers very clearly the day his best friend died in a bicycle accident at the hands of a drunk driver. This best illustrates ______ memory.
flashbulb
