Psychology Chapter 6 Q&A fillins – Flashcards
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On the internet, each website has its own specific information but is also linked to many other related sites. in addition, a person can have open more than one site at the same time. This pattern of organization may be very similar to how
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the mind organizes the information stored in long- term memory.
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psychologist consider memory to be
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an active system
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The most efficient way of transferring short-term memory into long term memory is by using
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elaborative rehearsal
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according to Craik and Lock hart, information that is ___________ will remembered more effectively and for a longer period of time
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deeply processed
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what is the best way for a person to overcome the tip of the tongue phenomenon?
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stop trying to remember the information you are trying to retrieve
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the fact that everyone remembers that George Washington was the first president points to the primacy effect as a result of
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long term memory storage
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Why do flashbulb memories seem so vivid and exact?
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Which of the following bet describes psychologist John Kihlstrom's comments when talking about Barllett's book on memory?
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In the information-processing model , the firststage of memory is ______ memory
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sensory
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_________ is the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input.
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Elisabeth Loftus research determined that
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what people see and hear about an event after the fact can easily affect the accuracy of their memories of that event.
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All models of memory involve the same ________ processes
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three
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in one study with depressed patients who were being treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), patients were tested for their memory of certain television programs both before and after the treatment. What was the result?
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Patients forgot more recent programs but remembered older ones
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Long-term memory
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has unlimited capacity
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_________ is the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input.
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Selective attention
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The set of mental operations of that people perform on sensory information to convert that information into a form that is usable in the brain's storage systems is called
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encoding
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a(n) __________ is a memory expert or someone with exceptional memory ability.
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mnemonist
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_______ syndrome refers to the creation of inaccurate of false memories through the suggestion of others, often while the person is under hypnosis
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False memory
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Mr.S was a performing _______. showcasing his extraordinary memory ability.
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mnemonist
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memories are more easily accessed when they are stored with more
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retrieval cues
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The most efficient way of transferring short-term memory into long term memory is by using
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elaborative rehearsal
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which of the following best describes psychologist John Kihlstrom's comments when talking about Bartlett's book on memory?
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Memory is more like making up a story than it is like reading a book
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Loftus and other researchers have demonstrated the memory
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is a process that constantly changes
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in interpreting Bartlett's book, Kihlstrom says that memory is
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a problem-solving activity
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The storage time of a memory depends upon
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the system of memory being used
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In a room filled with people, where several conversations are going on, you are able to hear your name being spoken. this is
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the cocktail-party effect
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The Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) model focuses on
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the connections and timing of memory processes.
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_________ allows a musician to tune a musical instrument.
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Echoic memory
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To help students learn new psychology terms, Professor Williams encourages the students to think deeply about the meaning of the words by asking them to provide examples of each term, and to use each one in a sentence. professor williams is using which model of memory?
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levels of processing
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After his accident, Bryan had trouble remembering facts and events that were related to his personal life history. He was suffering from a loss of _______ memory.
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episodic
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Juana was certain that the man she saw in the police photograph was the man who stole her purse. Later another man confessed to the crime. This isand example of
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a false positive
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Brenda called mike while he was in the middle of the meeting to ask him to pick up some milk on his way home from work . when mike got home he didn't have the milk, and brenda was angry.mike may have experienced
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encoding failure
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The phrase "use it or lose it" refers to which theory of forgetting ?
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disuse
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on the internet, each website has its own specific information but is also linked to many other related sites. in addition, a person can have open more than one site at the same time. this pattern of organization may be very similar to how
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the mind organizes the mind organizes the information stored in long-term memory.
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in real life, information that has just entered iconic memory will be pushed out very quickly by new information. research suggests that after ___________, old information is replaced by new information
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a quarter of a second
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when a memory is being formed, several changes take place in the brain in a process called
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consolidation
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the _______ can be used to explain how rapidly the points on the semantic network can be accessed
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parallel distributed processing model
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In general, long-term memory is encoded
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in a meaningful form
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The removal of H.M.'s hippocampi made _______ impossible
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consolidation
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one may transfer information from STM into LTM by
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elaborative rehearsal
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Explicit memory begins to form after about age 2 developed
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when the hippocampusis more fully
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Early memories before the age of 2 yeas tend to be implicit, which may explain
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infantile amnesia
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Mrs. Tuttle was 97 years old and suffered from forgetfulness and mental confusion. She was probably experiencing
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senile dementia
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An eyewitness was asked to testify in court about her memory of a crime that took place on her street. Prior to her testimony, an attorney provided her with a written statement from another neighbor who also viewed the crime. as a result of reading her neighbor's statement which was different from her own, the accuracy of her memory was altered, which eventually affected her testimony. This an example of
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hindsight bias
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Marcia dated Davio for several years. They recently broke up and Marcia went out on a date, Marcia mistakenly called him Davio. This is an example of
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proactive interference
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To answer the questions in this test, which type of memory recall will you most frequently use?
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recognition
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Little Georgie is learning the alphabet. when he recites the alphabet he says "A, B, C, D, W, X, Y, Z." This is an example of
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serial position effect
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The ________ effect suggests that the first and last person interviewed for a job will be better remembered by the interviewer than all the people in the middle.
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serial position
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Memory for facts is called_______ memory because facts are things that are known and can be stated outright.
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declarative
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Memories of childhood events, special birthdays or anniversaries, and things that happened to an individual on any given day are called
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episodic memories
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The system of working memory processes the information in
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short-term memory
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When a memory is being formed, several changes take place in the brain in a process called
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consolidation
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The ________ can be used to explain how rapidly the points on the semantic network can be accessed.
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parallel distributed processing model
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The information in short-term memory is
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conscious
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According to Craik and Lockhart, information that is _______ will be remembered more effectively and for a longer period of time.
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deeply processed
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The fact that everyone remembers that George Washington was the first president points to the primacy effect as a result of
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long-term memory storage.
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the information-processing model can be linked to
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cognitive psychology
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Helena lives on a very busy street in New York City. Although she makes no effort to remember how many times cars have passed down her street, when asked, she usually responds "often", or "a lot". Her ability o unconsciously notice how many cars pass down her street is a result of
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automatic encoding
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Marcos and his friends enjoy watching football together on Sundays. After some of the games are over, Marcos tells his friends that he knew all along who would will the game. Marcos' belief that he could predict the outcome of some of the games without having been told the winners in advance is an example of
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hindsight bias
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Research on __________has implications for understanding learning and attention disorders, autism, and intelligence
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Working Memory
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The Tower of Hanoi study found that people with anterograde amnesia
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still formed new procedural memories
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________ memory refers to the awareness of the meanings of words,concepts, and terms as well as names of objects, math skills, and so on
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semantic
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the information-processing model of memory suggests that
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information that is deeply processed will be remembered more efficiently