Memory Quiz – Flashcards

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..

For a fraction of a second after the lightning flash disappeared, LLeana retained a vivid mental image of its ragged edges. Her experience most clearly illustrates the nature of ____ Memory

The address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the TV screen, but the image disappears before Sergei has had a chance to write down the complete address. To his surprise, however, he has retained a momentary mental image of the five-digit zip code. His experience best illustrates _____ memory

Hermann Ebbinghaus use of nonsense syllables to study memory led to the discovery that

Explicit memory is to ____ as implicit memory is to ______

Using the mnemomic ROY G BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow in the order of wavelength illustrates the use of

Compared with formerly depressed people, those who are currently depressed are more likely to recall their parents as rejecting and punitive. This best illustrates

Every day as she walks to school, Mamie passes a mural painted on the side of a building. However, when asked, she says she does not remember ever seeing it. Which of the following is the best explanation for this occurrence

Many of the experimental participants who were asked how fast two cars in a Daimler traffic accident were going when they smashed into each other subsequently recalled seeing broken glass at the scene of the accident. This experiment best illustrated...

At your first day of work manager introduces your coworkers, one at a time. As you meet each person, you repeat all the names, starting at the beginning. By the time you meet the last person, you can better recall the names at the beginning and the last names you heard. Which of the following best explains your experience?

Participants in one experiment were given entirely fabricated accounts of an occasion in which they had been lost in a shopping mall during their childhood. Many of these participants later falsely recollected vivid details of the experience as having actually occurred. This experiment best illustrated

Professor Maslova has so many memories of former students that she has difficulty remembering the names of new students. The professor's difficulty best illustrates

The increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation is known as

After attending group therapy sessions for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Karen mistakenly remembered details from others traumatic life stories as part of her own life history. This best illustrates the dangers of

Explicit memory is to long-term memory as iconic memory is to ____ memory