Chapter 7 Test Review Flashcards
(45 cards)
Cues in the present context overlap with those from the past so there is an eerie experience of having been there before.
Deja Vu
According to the __________________, items from the beginning and end of a list are remembered best.
Serial-Position Effect
__________________ images remain in sensory memory for about __________________ seconds.
Auditory; two
__________________ images remain in sensory information for a maximum of __________________ second.
Visual; One-half
Conscious intentional recollection of an event or an item of information.
Explicit Memory
The capcity to retain and retrieve information.
Memory
According to Herman Ebbinghaus’s experiments, a person’s ability to recall a list of words __________________.
Decreases dramatically during the first hour after learning the list
Infantile amnesia is probably the result of the immaturity of the __________________, undeveloped __________________ abilities, and the __________________ of infants.
Hippocampus; Language; Present-Oriented Nature
A person trying to learn the vocabulary of a foreign language can remember the foreign words by __________________, constructing links to something already familiar, and using __________________.
Maintenance Rehersal; Paired Associates
Most people forget things because of the normal processes of __________________ and __________________.
Interference; Decay
The easiest of the three basic memory tests is __________________.
Recognition
We can more easily remember bits of information by organizing them into mental represenations of the world called __________________.
Schemas
To remember information for long periods of time, facts must be transferred from __________________ to __________________.
Short-term memory; Long-term memory
The average person can hold in __________________ memory a list of __________________ items.
Short-term; seven
An eyewitness’ emmory of a crime can be distorted by __________________.
Hypnosis
Information in __________________ memory lasts for several seconds.
Short-term
The first stage of memory is __________________.
Sensory Memory
Studying for a test in the same room in which it will be held may result in a better grade because of __________________.
Context-dependent Memory
One drawback of __________________ is that it does not connect memorized information with past learning.
Maintenance Rehearsal
A __________________ helps a person remember a fact by creating a __________________.
Visual Code; Mental Picture
Computers and people both handle information using the processes of __________________, __________________, and __________________.
Encoding; Storage; Retrieval
__________________ memories are so vivid because they recall events with special meanings; examples of episodic memories.
Flashbulb Memories
__________________ learned in classes at school become part of the __________________ memory.
Facts; semantic
The skills needed for riding a bicycle are stored as __________________ memories.
Implicit