GEN PSYCH Ch 6
which memory system has limited capacity and stores items for about 30 seconds?
short-term memory
Encoding moves information from the ________ to the _________.
short-term, long-term memory
the inability to distinguish what you originally experienced from what you heard or were old about an event later is called...
source misattribution
One objection to the three-box model of memory is that
the brain performs many independent operations simultaneously
In the "three-box model of memory," which memory system holds information for no more than a few seconds, until it can be processed further?
the sensory register
---- is an especially vivid memory of an emotional event.
a flashbulb memory
The belief that information you learned an event is an actual memory of the event is called
confabulation
what are the components of the information-processing model, in order of occurrence?
encoding, storage, retrieval
Which of the following is a test for recall?
essay questions
Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information is called:
explicit memory
Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades?
long term memory
Retrieval moves information from the ________ to the _________.
long term memory, working memory
the ----model represents the contents of memory as connections among a huge number of interacting processing units.
parallel distributed processing
which of the following is considered to be an implicit memory?
procedural memory
which of the following ways of measuring explicit memory are usually the easiest for the person being tested?
recognition