Chapter 7

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Nina is trying to remember how her political science professor had described the rift that exists between the two dominant political parties in the United States. She thinks about the new information she learned in class and tries to understand the various positions held by each party. Nina’s attempt to remember a concept by tying its meaning to a stimulus is called _______ rehearsal.
Acoustic
Maintenance
Elaborative
Structural
If you stare at a television screen that displays bright, vivid colors, you might notice that this image lingers in your "mind's eye" after you look away from the screen. This is because of the functioning of ________ storage.
Short-term
Sensory
Long-term
Semantic
Barney's wife, Betty, asks Barney to go to the grocery store to get several items for the house. As she is listing the items, Barney gallantly insists he doesn't need to write down everything she asks for. "I have a great memory. I'll remember it all!" Barney proclaims. Betty shakes her head because she knows that, according to George Miller’s research, Barney will only remember about ____ items on her list
12
7
3
10
When you read your textbook, your brain changes the words you are reading into a meaningful neural code that it can use. In memory, this process is called
Encoding.
Storage.
Attention.
Retrieval
Based on the three-part model of memory storage, the sequence of memory storage is
Long-term storage, sensory storage, and short-term storage
Short-term storage, sensory storage, and long-term storage
Sensory storage, short-term storage, and long-term storage
Short-term storage, long-term storage, and sensory storage.
George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to ________ plus or minus ________ items, or chunks of information.
Nine; one
Seven; two
Ten; three
Five; three
To remember her nine-digit Social Security number, Alyssa uses her working memory to place the numbers into three groups. In addition, each group of three or four digits is easy to remember because it is meaningful. Alyssa’s strategy in remembering her Social Security number illustrates
Maintenance rehearsal.
The primacy effect.
The recency effect.
The power of chunking.
A person who has experienced the loss of past memories may be experiencing
Anterograde amnesia.
Retroactive interference.
Retrograde amnesia.
Proactive interference.
If someone asks you to describe your first day of school, you will most likely retrieve a(n) ________ memory.
Procedural
Classically conditioned
Implicit
Episodic
The increased ability to retrieve memories that occurs when one’s internal states during encoding match one’s internal states during recall is called
Context-dependent memory.
retroactive interference.
State-dependent memory.
Proactive interference.
The type of memory associated with being able to consciously recall previous experiences is referred to as ________ memory.
Procedural
Explicit
Implicit
Sensory
Remembering how to ice skate is most likely an example of ________ memory
Procedural
Episodic
Explicit
Semantic
Filter theory helps explain all of the following memory phenomena EXCEPT
why we are “blind” to large changes in what happens around us.
why we selectively attend to important information.
why we tend to process personally irrelevant information.
why we can shadow words heard in one ear.
Elaborative rehearsal is a more effective memory strategy than maintenance rehearsal because the information is processed
based on sound
more automatically
more deeply
repeatedly
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