Psychology Exam 2

The ________ says that memories are processed the same way that a computer processes information.

Atkinson-Shiffrin model

The ________ shows that each generation tends to have a higher IQ than the last generation.

Flynn Effect

In the movie "50 First Dates" the main character wakes up each day not remembering the day before or having met her new boyfriend. She suffers from ________ amnesia.

anterograde

Shaquallah suffered a head injury in a soccer game and can remember everything from her past but can no longer make new memories. What type of amnesia does she have?

anterograde

The vibration of the ________ causes the ossicles to move.

auditory canal

Auditory receptor cells are embedded within the ________ which is found in the ________.

basilar membrane; cochlea

The organ of Corti on the ________ within the ________ changes vibrations into impulses that travel to the auditory nerve.

basilar membrane; cochlea

Episodic memories and semantic memories are both examples of ________ memory

explicit

Pitch is determined by the ________ of sound waves

frequency

Gossip making up 60-70% of conversations is argued to be an important part of defining ________ in regulating the social world.

ingroups and outgroups

Caleb uses the words "sofa" "soda" and "dinner" instead of "couch" "soft drink" and "supper." When the others in the conversations use the same words the people talking have adopted the same

lexicon.

Derek's email log-in forced him to create a new password but now when he logs on he only remembers his old password. This is an example of ________ interference.

proactive

Ezra got a new phone number but keeps giving out his old phone number on accident when people ask him. This is an example of ________ interference.

proactive

________ interference occurs when old information hinders the recall of newly learned information while ________ interference happens when information learned more recently hinders the recall of older information.

proactive; retroactive

Gabe was essentially fluent in French in elementary school when he lived in Canada but then moved away until he got a job offer to work in Paris during his 20s. He picks it up again surprisingly fast. This is an example of ________ a means of retrieving information out of your long-term memory storage system.

relearning

Amy studied German in high school but began studying French once in college. When she meets another German student she can't seem to find any German words to stay and instead only remembers French. This is an example of ________ interference.

retroactive

Jason studies Spanish for three years and then switches to Pashto. When asked to remember Spanish vocabulary he can't instead he can only remember Pashto vocabulary. This is an example of ________ interference.

retroactive

Demarcus suffered a concussion in his first lacrosse match causing him to forget everything that happened prior to the match. He has ________ amnesia.

retrograde

What are the three types of encoding?

semantic, acoustic, and visual

A sound's purity is called its

timbre.