Chapter 8 Psych
Which part of the brain is responsible for the emotion-related memory formation?
Amygalda
Which part of the brain is most important in the processing of implicit memories?
Cerebellum
Which of the following refers to the processing of information into the memory system?
Encoding
Research shows which of the following does NOT improve memory
Interference
Which of the following does not enhance memories?
Massed practice
Misleading information that has corrupted one's memory of an event is called the
Misinformation effect
Memory techniques such as acronyms and the peg-word system are called
Mnemonic Devices
Studies by Loftus and Palmer, in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident, indicate that
People's recall may easily be affected by misleading information
Information is maintained in short-term memory only briefly unless it is
Rehearsed
The process of getting information out of emmory storage is called
Retrieval
Misattributing whether we heard about, read about, or imagined an event is called
Source amnesia
The tendency to recall items that appear first on a list is called
primacy effect
Research on memory construction reveals that memories
Reflect a person's biases and assumptions
The correct order of information to travel through the memory system is
Sensory> short term> long term
The ideas that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be effective in helping us recall it, is called
encoding specificity principle
Our short-term memory span is approximately ______ items.
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Memory researchers are suspicous of long-repressed memories of traumatic events that are "recovered" with the aid of drugs or hypnosis because
All of the above
The inability to form new memories is called
Anterograde amnesia
Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay, the items that were best recalled were those
At the beginning of the list
The eerie feeling of having been somewhere before is an example of
Deja Vu