Psychology Chapter 8 Exam Review

In the 1950s, George Miller estimated the capacity of short-term memory to be the...

Has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades...

Auditory images remain in the sensory register for up to...

Maintenance rehearsal is defined as...

The relearning method of measuring implicit memory involves....

Example of a question that would most likely reduce the chance of false reporting by a child..

Has a limited capacity and stores items for about 30 seconds...

Information that doesn't transfer out of the sensory register or ____ is forgotten forever

Include facts, rules, concepts or items of general knowledge...

For most Americans, which of these would be considered a chunk?

Occurs when a person has thought, heard, or told others about an imagined event many times...

Vivid recollections of emotional events, like 9/11...

Amnesia can be organic, resulting from ______, or psychogenic, resulting from _______.

Visual images remain in the sensory register for a maximum of...

Encoding of meaning rather than of simply the physical or sensory features of a stimulus...

In addressing the debate regarding children's memories of sexual abuse, research data indicates

The voluntary pushing of threatening or upsetting information to the unconscious...

Ability to retrieve, reproduce and identify information previously encountered...

Déjà vu occurs when...

When researchers investigated organization in long-term memory, they found that...

Recognition, the ability to identify previously encountered material is used for...

This acts as a holding bin, giving us time to select items for attention...

According to the parallel distributed processing model, human memory is recognized as...

Theory of forgetting most closely compared to rerecording on an audiotape, wiping out original

A tendency to remember something when you are in the same physical or mental state as original

Loss of memory for important personal information, often painful events...

Occurs when prev. stored material interferes with ability to remember recently learned material

Strategies and tricks for improving memory...

Includes short-term memory and information retrieved...

Ability to retrieve and reproduce information previously encountered...

A 45 year old not being able to remember Spanish from classes taken way back in high school...

Inability to remember events and experiences that occurred during 1st 2 or 3 years of life...

Recovering a memory is like...

"I before E, except after C, or when sounded like A, as in neighbor or weigh" should help you

Comparing the mind to a computer, which terms would be used to describe memory?

When presented with a list of names people will best recall these names at...

Theory that says information may get into memory, but become confused with other information...

Memories for knowing how to do something...

Association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of new info.

Occurs from inability to retrieve info. stored in mem. because of insufficient cues for recall

Occurs when recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember old info.

Remembering going to a Dave Matthews Band Concert would be an example of a(n)...

For a detective to ensure a witnesses testimony is accurate, it is important that they...

Internal representations of personally experienced events...

Which of these requires the use of procedural memory?

Effortful encoding includes...

What might best help someone trying to remember new telephone numbers with an added area code?

When earlier experiences or previously encountered information affect current thoughts...

A common example of the Tip-Of-The-Tongue state would be

Recalling "memories" from photos, videos or other people's account of an event...