Unit 4- Psy 5

What is the Serial Position Effect?

• The tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list

• An inability to form new memories

• The disruptive effect of new learning on old information

• Incorporating misleading information into memory

What is Anterograde Amnesia?

• An inability to retrieve information from one's past

• An inability to form new memories

• The disruptive effect of prior learning on new information

• A method of transferring information into long-term memory

What is Retrograde Amnesia?

• An inability to form new memories

• The disruptive effect of new learning on old information

• An inability to retrieve information from one's past

• Incorporating misleading information into memory

What is Proactive Interference?

• The disruptive effect of new learning on old information

• The disruptive effect of prior learning on new information

• An inability to form new memories

• Incorporating misleading information into memory

What is Retroactive Interference?

• The disruptive effect of prior learning on new information

• The disruptive effect of new learning on old information

• An inability to retrieve information from one's past

• A method of transferring information into long-term memory

Who proposed the concept of a working memory that underlies human thought processes?

• Hermann Ebbinghaus

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Alan Baddeley

• L.L. Thurstone

Who was the first person to study memory scientifically and systematically?

• Alan Baddeley

• Hermann Ebbinghaus

• Elizabeth Loftus

• Charles Spearman

What is elaborative rehearsal?

• A method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making it meaningful

• The disruptive effect of new learning on old information

• An inability to form new memories

• Incorporating misleading information into memory

Who challenged Spearman and proposed that intelligence consisted of 7 different primary mental abilities?

• Alan Baddeley

• Hermann Ebbinghaus

• Elizabeth Loftus

• L.L. Thurstone

What does the Serial Position Effect suggest about memory recall?

• People remember the middle items best

• People remember the first and last items best

• People remember only the first items

• People remember only the last items