The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, 2nd Edition (King)

Chapter 7: Memory

Fill in the Blanks

1.

In terms of memory encoding, focusing on more than one thing simultaneously is called .
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Steve was hit on the head by a baseball last week. He can't seem to remember that whole week but has no problems creating new memories. Steve seems to be suffering from .
3.

Auditory sensory memory is called memory.
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Within working memory, the integrates information from the phonological loop, the visuospatial scratch pad, and long-term memory.
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The phenomenon refers to the experience of a person being confident that he or she knows something, but not being able to retrieve the information from memory.
6.

It is usually easier to remember things that come at the end of a list than to remember those that come in the middle of a list. This is called the effect.
7.

Vividly remembering the specifics of an important event (such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks or the assassination of President Kennedy) is called a(n) .
8.

The process by which information gets into our memories is .
9.

Steve's teacher tells the class that she only gives essay tests. Steve's teacher is using a memory task.
10.

Winston and Lucy have worked together for years but when Winston sees Lucy at the theme park over the weekend he can't remember her name. Winston's retrieval failure is best explained by the .
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