Question 1

One reason that adults typically recall little of their first three years of life is that during infancy they were unable to verbally label most of their experiences. This best illustrates that the formation of long-term memories often requires ___________ __________

Accepted Answer

semantic encoding

Question 2

The use of acronyms to improve one\'s memory of unfamiliar material best illustrates the value of ________

Accepted Answer

chunking

Question 3

When Sperling visually displayed three rows of three letters each for only one-twentieth of a second, research participants ________________

Accepted Answer

had a momentary photographic memory of all 9 letters

Question 4

Long-term potentiation refers to ______________

Accepted Answer

an increase in a neuron\'s firing potential

Question 5

The prolonged stress of sustained physical abuse may inhibit memory formation by shrinking the __________

Accepted Answer

hippocampus

Question 6

Fill-in-the-blank test questions measure ________; matching concepts with their definitions measures _________

Accepted Answer

recall  recognition

Question 7

Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially _________

Accepted Answer

rapid and subsequently slows down

Question 8

You took Spanish during your sophomore year, and French during your junior year. Happily, you found that knowing Spanish helped you learn French. This phenomenon is best explained by _______ _____

Accepted Answer

positive transfer

Question 9

What best describes the position of many current researchers regarding repression?

Accepted Answer

Repression rarely occurs as it is difficult to forget emotional material

Question 10

Visualizing an object and actually seeing that object activate similar brain areas. This most clearly contributes to ________ ________

Accepted Answer

imagination inflation

Question 11

When memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus was an adolescent, her uncle incorrectly insisted that as a child she had found her own mother\'s drowned body. Loftus herself later falsely recollected finding the body. This best illustrates _ _______________ ________

Accepted Answer

the misinformation effect

Question 12

Your consciously activated but limited-capacity memory is called _____________ memory

Accepted Answer

short-term

Question 13

How does the brain\'s capacity for parallel processing relate to encoding new memories?

Accepted Answer

Parallel processing allows many sensory experiences to be encoded all at once, some automatically, some with effort

Question 14

In an effort to remember how to spell \"rhinoceros\", Samantha spells the word aloud 30 times. She is using a technique known as ________

Accepted Answer

rehearsal

Question 15

The tendency for distributed study to yield better long-term retention than massed study is known as _ ______ ____________

Accepted Answer

the spacing effect

Question 16

Semantic encoding refers to the processing of ______

Accepted Answer

meanings

Question 17

Elaine\'s memory of her Paris vacation is more positive today than it was last year just after she went. This best illustrates _______ ________

Accepted Answer

rosy retrospection

Question 18

Although Mr. Yanagita has recently learned to play poker quite well, he cannot consciously remember ever having played poker. It is likely that he has suffered damage to his _______________

Accepted Answer

hippocampus

Question 19

Reading a romantic novel caused Consuela to recall some old experiences with a junior high school boyfriend. The effect of the novel on Consuela\'s memory retrieval is an illustration of _______

Accepted Answer

priming

Question 20

Information learned while a person is _________ is best recalled when that person is ________

Accepted Answer

drunk  drunk

Question 21

In describing what he calls the seven sins of memory, Daniel Schacter suggests that storage decay contributes to __________

Accepted Answer

transcience

Question 22

Proactive interference refers to the ________________

Accepted Answer

disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info

Question 23

Research on memory construction indicates that ____________

Accepted Answer

false memories often feel as real as true memories

Question 24

Compared with adults, children are more susceptible to _ ___________ ___________

Accepted Answer

the misinformation effect

Question 25

The discovery that words heard underwater are later better recalled underwater than on land best illustrates the value of _____ _______

Accepted Answer

retrieval cues

Question 26

Negative recall primed by distressing emotions most clearly illustrates _______ ________ ______

Accepted Answer

mood-congruent memory

Question 27

blah?

Accepted Answer

blah

Question 28

The inability to recall which numbers on a telephone dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely due to ______ _______

Accepted Answer

encoding failure

Question 29

The title of a song is on the tip of Gerard;s tongue, but he cannot recall it until someone mentions the songwriter\'s name. Gerard\'s initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused by __________ _______

Accepted Answer

retrieval failure

Question 30

After learning the combination for his new locker at school, Milton is unable to remember the combination for his year-old bicycle lock. Milton is experiencing the effects of ________ _______

Accepted Answer

retroactive interference

Question 31

Sigmund Freud emphasized that the forgetting of painful experiences is caused by a process that involves _________ ________

Accepted Answer

retrieval failure

Question 32

After reading a newspaper report suggesting that drunken driving might have contributed to a recent auto accident, several people who actually witnessed the accident began to remember the driver involved as traveling more recklessly than was actually the case. This provides an example of _ ___________ _______

Accepted Answer

the misinformation effect

Question 33

As a child, Andre dreamed that he was chased and attacked by a ferocious dog. Many years later, he mistakenly recalled that this had actually happened to him. Andre\'s false recollection best illustrates ______ _____

Accepted Answer

source amnesia

Question 34

Karl and Dee had a joyful wedding ceremony. After their painful divorce, however, they began to remember the wedding as a somewhat hectic and unpleasant event. Their recollections best illustrate the nature of ________ __________

Accepted Answer

memory construction

Question 35

Incest survivors who lack conscious memories of their sexual abuse may sometimes be told that they are simply in a stage of \"denial\" and \"repression\". This explanation for their lack of abuse memories emphasizes

Accepted Answer

retrieval failure

Question 36

Mentally re-creating the mood that accompanied your original learning of course material is an effective way to activate _______ _____

Accepted Answer

retrieval cues

Question 37

The process of getting information out of memory is called ________

Accepted Answer

retrieval

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