Memory review - Cog Psyc

Retaining information over time through encoding, storage, and retrieval best describes

• long-term potentiation

• automatic processing

• the two-track mind

• memory

After Maya told her friend the five-digit password to a protected website, her friend was able to remember it only long enough to type it into the password box. In this instance, the password was clearly stored in her friend's ________ memory

• flashbulb

• short-term

• iconic

• implicit

Another term for implicit memory is ________ memory.

• iconic

• short-term

• non-declarative

• working

To remember that a wagon, a baseball, and a doll were items on her Christmas shopping list, Julia formed a vivid mental image of an oversize doll pulling a bright red wagon loaded with baseballs. Julia's strategy best illustrates the use of

• the spacing effect

• the serial position effect

• mnemonics

• implicit memory

Many students review course material at various times during a semester so they will be prepared for the final exam. These students are especially likely to retain the information far into the future. This best illustrates the value of

• distributed practice

• implicit memory

• state-dependent memory

• the testing effect

Paulo was robbed at gunpoint by a group of strangers. Police officers later asked him to describe in writing what he had seen and heard during the robbery. Which measure of memory retention was being used?

• rehearsal

• recognition

• relearning

• recall

At a block party, Cyndi is introduced to eight new neighbors. Moments later, she remembers only the names of the first three and last two neighbors. Her experience best illustrates

• state-dependent memory

• context-dependent memory

• implicit memory

• the serial position effect

After suffering a brain injury in a motorcycle accident, Arotza cannot form new memories. He can, however, remember events before the accident. Arotza's memory difficulty most clearly illustrates

• retroactive interference

• the misinformation effect

• amnesia

• déjà vu

During her evening Spanish language exam, Janica so easily remembers the French vocabulary she studied that morning that she finds it difficult to recall the Spanish vocabulary she rehearsed that afternoon. Her difficulty best illustrates

• the misinformation effect

• proactive interference

• source amnesia

• retroactive interference

After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was asked whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates

• implicit memory

• proactive interference

• the misinformation effect.

• the testing effect