Psyc Chapter 7 Quiz

Front 1

What are the three basic processes in memory?

Back 1

Encoding, storage and retrieval

Front 2

Which of the following statements best represents current thinking about early-selection versus late selection theories of attention?

Back 2

The ocation of the attention my filter flexibility

Front 3

Which of the following reserachers conducted a classic experiment that demonstrated the breif duration of information in sensory memory

Back 3

George Sperling

Front 4

What is involving in chunking?

Back 4

REarranging incoming information into meaningful or farmiliar patterns

Front 5

Penfiels studies suggest that long-lost memories can be elicited through electrical stimulation of the brain. If so, what does this suggest oculd be a cause of forgetting?

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REtrieval Failure

Front 6

What General term is used to describe models of memory that are based on the assumption that cognitive processess depend on patterns of activation in nterconnected omputional networks?

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Paralell dstributed processing models

Front 7

What is source monitoring?

Back 7

The tendency for recall of episocidc memory to be more accurate than semantic memory

Front 8

Whcih measure of memory requires subjects to reporduce information on their own, wihtout any cues?

Back 8

Recall

Front 9

According to intereference theory, why do peopel forget?

Back 9

Competition from other material

Front 10

James McGaugh has theorized htat hormones may influence memory storage by modulating activity in the brain. Which of the following is implicated by McGaughs Theory?

Back 10

THe amygdala and a variety of neurotransmitter systems in the brain

Front 11

What is the primary sysmptom associated with anterograde AMnesia?

Back 11

A person does not create memories of events that occur after a head injury

Front 12

Which memory system ocntains the memory for how to type on a typewriter or drive an automobile

Back 12

Procedural Memory system

Front 13

According to the notion of Deep processing, you can learn material most effectivley by relating information to which of hte following?

Back 13

Your own life and experience

Front 14

Whcih of the following terms is defined as the tendency to mould our interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out?

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Hindsight Bias

Front 15

According to Craik And LockHart, when individuals think about the actual objects or actions that the words they are trying to memorize represent, they are using _____________ encoding.

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Semantic

Front 16

A ___________ is an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event that developes through experience with the object or event in question

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Schema

Front 17

The multiple-choice question is best decribed as an example of a __________ measure of retention.

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recognition

Front 18

The BAsic Tenet of the ___________ theory of forgetting is that if you fail to use a memory, over time, its brain trace will fade.

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decay

Front 19

Researchers who question the accuracy of repressed memories use evidence from studies of the ____________ deffect and source-monitoring errors

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misinformation

Front 20

Evidence from recent studies indicates that the _______________ may be critical to the formation of memories for learned fears and other emotional memories

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amydala

Front 21

your birthday and your mothers maiden name are MOST likely to be contained in your _______________ memory system.

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Declaritive or Episodic

Front 22

____________ memory involves remembering events from the past or previously learned inforfmation.

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Retrospective

Front 23

The _________ deffect occurs when subjects show better recall for items at the begginning and end of a list than for items in the middle

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serial position

Front 24

Enhancing memory by associating concrete word with an abstract word, and generatiing an image to reprsent the conrete word, is known as the _________ method.

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keyword