Chapter Seven Quiz

The process of organizing information into meaningful groupings, thereby allowing one to extend the efficiency of short-term memory, is called __________

chunking

Which of the following forms of memory requires conscious attention for encoding, storage, and retrieval?

episodic memory

The logical conclusion from years of searching for the engram is that __________

human memories are diffused throughout the brain in many different structures

You watch LeShon wave his Fourth of July sparkler as he runs. As you watch, you notice a circle of light rather than just a single point of light. This effect demonstrates the functioning of your __________ memory

iconic

The hormones adrenaline and __________ are released in the face of stress and stimulate protein receptors on nerve cells, which help explain why emotional memories may persist over time.

norepinephrine

Exposing people to stereotype-consistent information before meeting with an individual from the stereotyped group is often sufficient to produce stereotypic interpretations of that person's actions and thoughts. This is an example of

priming

Students often sit in class before an exam looking exhausted from having pulled an all-night studying session. Their professors are often frustrated because they've suggested spreading the studying out over longer periods of time instead of using a massed-practice approach. The effectiveness of distributed practice has been supported by repeated research studies. This reminds us of the importance of ___________

replicability

Seth is using visualization to imagine himself throwing pitches for strikes when he plays baseball. The ability to recognize that he is constructing these images rather than recalling them from an actual game in which he played results from accurate

source monitoring

When listening to the radio, Ramona hears a song; she cannot immediately recall the band's name, but she is sure she knows it. It feels as if the name is just outside of her reach! This is one example of __________

the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

A key theme that has emerged from the memory research literature is that __________

we actively reconstruct our memories using the cues and information available to us