Psychology Final Test 7

Front 1

Karl Lashley termed the place in the brain where specific memories were stored a/an:

Back 1

engram

Front 2

The property or state of an organism which is assumed to have resulted from some experience and leads to the potential of altered behavior is the definition the text gives for:

Back 2

memory

Front 3

When you read text material you should:

Back 3

engage in active rehearsal by retrieving what you have just read

Front 4

Which theory of forgetting would best account for you being unable to recall your second-grade teacher's name yesterday but today you can recall her name?

Back 4

Retrieval failure

Front 5

________ is an encoding system involving first learning a series of words that correspond to a sequence of numbers.

Back 5

The peg-word system

Front 6

In a relearning test of long term memory retrieval a ________ score is measured by comparing the current performance to the initial performance.

Back 6

savings

Front 7

A mnemonic device to remember through forming mental associations between items you wish to recall and specific locations along a designated route you may travel is called:

Back 7

method of loci

Front 8

The concept that information is not simply stored in the brain but shaped and modified by our brains is the:

Back 8

information-processing perspective

Front 9

The auditory sensory memory is called the:

Back 9

echoic memory

Front 10

Donald Hebb (1949) suggested that short- and long-term memories

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have different physical bases

Front 11

The theory that explains forgetting in terms of deterioration of neurochemical and anatomical changes in the brain that encode memories is the

Back 11

memory trace decay theory

Front 12

The process by which information is retained over time in the brain's "memory bank" is

Back 12

storage

Front 13

Retrieval failure of LTM is generally the result of:

Back 13

inadequate retrieval cues

Front 14

When earlier learning interferes with the recall of later learning, it is called ________ interference.

Back 14

proactive

Front 15

Long-term potentiation (LTP) is defined as a change in the strength of a synapse resulting from:

Back 15

simultaneous firing in both the presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons

Front 16

Research indicates that auditory messages that we do not pay attention to are:

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retained for up to 2 seconds.

Front 17

Psychologists believe that most declarative memories are stored in:

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association networks

Front 18

The theory that memories may be stored either in sensory codes or in verbal codes is known as the:

Back 18

dual-code model

Front 19

Why would most students prefer recognition-type tests of long term memory over recall tests?

Back 19

Most students don't prefer recognition type tests; they prefer multiple choice tests.

Front 20

Cardiovascular disease may cause organic amnesia through:

Back 20

decreased oxygen supply to the brain cells