Researchers
Researchers have found that memory was better in people who were...
asleep during the retention interval, persuasively because interference as reduced.
The three steps in memory information processing are:
encoding, storage, retrieval.
Memory techniques that involve vivid imagery are called
mnemonic devices
The eerie feeling of having been somewhere before is an example of:
déjà vu.
The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory:
may be reconstructed during recall according to how questions are framed.
Kandel and Schwartz have found that when learning occurs, more of the neurotransmitter ___ is released into synapses.
Serotonin
Visual sensory memory is referred to as:
iconic memory
One way to increase the amount of information in memory is to group it into larger, familiar units. This process is referred to as:
chunking
Which area of the brain is most important in the processing of implicit memories?
cerebellum
Which of the following was not recommended as a strategy for improving memory?
speed reading
Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay, the items that were best recalled were those...
at the beginning of the list.
Echoic memories fade after approximately:
3 to 5 seconds.
Research on memory construction reveals that memories
reflect a person's biases and assumptions
Which of the following measures of retention is the least sensitive in triggering retrieval?
recall
According to the serial position effect, when recalling a list of words you should have the greatest difficulty with those:
in the middle of the list.
Studies by Loftus and Palmer, in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident, indicate that...
people's recall may easily b affected by misleading information.
Which of the following is not a measure of retention?
retrieval
In Sperling's memory experiment, research participants were shown three rows of three letters, followed immediately by a low-, medium-, or high tone. The participants were able to report:
any one of the three rows of letters.
Long-term potentiation refers to:
the increased efficiency of synaptic transmission between certain neurons following learning.
Which of the following best describes the typical forgetting curve?
a rapid initial decline in retention becoming stable thereafter
Memory researchers are suspicious of long-repressed memories of traumatic events that are "recovered" with the aid of hypnosis because...
of all of these reasons.
Our short-term memory span is approximately ________ items.
7
Memory for skills is called:
implicit memory.
Information is maintained in short-term memory only briefly unless it is:
rehearsed.
Hypnotically "refreshed" memories may prove inaccurate—especially if the hypnotist asks leading
memory construction.