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Which of the following describes your ability to identify the sound of a musical instrument you have heard before?

In order to remember information for a long period of time, facts must be
__________.

According to Sigmund Freud, repression is a reaction to __________.

Holding incoming information long enough for it to be processed is a function
of __________.

Which of the following is most important when trying to memorize information?

The easiest of the three basic memory tasks is __________.

Photographic memory is also called

During a game of Trivial Pursuit, Robyn is asked for the capital of Australia.
After thinking for a few moments she says, correctly, "Canberra." This is an
example of a(n) __________ memory.

Before they take a test, Laverne and Shirley are told by their instructor,
"You are not allowed to use your books or notes, and looking at another
person's exam is prohibited." When Shirley asks what the instructor said,
Laverne answers, "He told us not to cheat." Laverne's memory of what the
instructor said has been encoded __________.

A person trying to learn the vocabulary of a foreign language can remember the
foreign words by __________.

Angela's suspicious boyfriend asks her, "Where were you last Thursday night?"
To answer, Angela must use __________ memory.

Interference refers to

One drawback of maintenance rehearsal is that __________.

By having your review session for an exam in the same room in which the exam
will be given, you are most likely to benefit from __________ memory.

On the Fourth of July, a boy lit a sparkler and swung it quickly in a circle.
In the dark, the sparkler's light seemed to make a complete circle. This
illusion is due to the effects of __________ memory.

The average person can hold in short-term memory a list of __________.

Infantile amnesia is probably the result of __________.

Chunking is associated with

The skills needed for riding a bicycle are stored as __________.

The best way to keep information active in short-term memory is through
______________ rehearsal, while ______________ rehearsal is more effective for
encoding information into long-term memory.

Which of the following describes your ability to identify the name of your first grade teacher in a newspaper article?

According to the information-processing model of memory, if a person
completely loses the ability for __________ memory, the person will not be
able to form any memories of any kind.

William is talking with his children. "You should have been there the first
time that I saw your mother," he remembers. "I can still see her standing by
the door asking me for directions to the freeway." William is drawing from
his __________ memory.

Roger was bicycling to class when his brakes failed and he crashed into a
building. When he came to, he could not remember the events prior to his
accident. In other words, Roger was experiencing __________.

Homer Simpson is trying to remember the different functions of the control
panel at the nuclear power plant where he works. He remembers the functions
of the different buttons by thinking about the types of donuts that the
buttons most resemble. For example, he is supposed to press a red button to
shut off the reactors when they are about to have a meltdown. He remembers
this because the red button reminds him of cherry donuts, which he only eats
during hot weather. The type of processing that Homer is using is __________
rehearsal.

Remembering how to jump rope, a skill you have not practiced in many years, is an example of which kind of memory?

Computers and people both handle information using the processes of
__________.

Gerianna is playing in her senior piano recital. Later, when her friends ask
her how she can remember such long and complex pieces, Gerianna explains that
these tasks involve __________ memory, and words cannot aptly describe it.

Frank needed to call the local department store to see if his catalog order
was in. He found the telephone number in the phone book, mentally rehearsed
the number, and called the department store. Most likely, this number was
stored in __________ memory.

Facts learned in classes at school become part of the __________.

An eyewitness' memory of a crime can be distorted by __________.

The three memory processes are

Information in short-term memory lasts for __________.

The process of putting incoming information into a form with which the memory
system can work is called __________.

Procedural memory is __________.

Short-term memory

According to Hermann Ebbinghaus's experiments, a person's ability to recall a list
of words decreases dramatically __________.

Relating new information to something already known helps a person remember the new
facts by __________.

Richie is going to the store to buy the following items: eggs, milk, bread,
apples, and flour. He tries to remember the shopping list by repeating it
over and over. Richie is using __________ rehearsal.

Studying for a test in the same room in which it will be held may result in a better
grade because of __________.

Which of the following does NOT result in forgetting?

Flashbulb memories are so vivid because they __________.

The first stage of memory is __________.

HOMES, an acronym for the five Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior), is an example of

Psychologist George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to about

A visual code helps a person remember a fact by __________.

The three types of memory are

The three basic processes of memory are __________.

Most people forget things because of the normal processes of __________.

We can more easily remember bits of information by organizing them into mental
representations of the world called __________.