Your textbook describes a study in which participants were shown an ambiguous image and were either told they were looking at a pair of glasses or a barbell. Later, they were asked to draw the image they had seen from memory, and the pictures drawn were not ambiguous. The point of this study was to illustrate

Willy has a dream about going to Universal Studios. Later he misremembers that he actually went there. What is the process that most likely failed and led to his memory error?

Based on levels of processing, which of the following examples shows a student who is using the most effective study aid to remember information for an exam?

Which of the following statements about sensory memory is INCORRECT?

If your friend says a phone number aloud over and over until they can dial it, they are using ________ to maintain information in ________ memory.

Ruth was in an automobile accident and is suffering from mild retrograde amnesia. What would you expect Ruth to have the most trouble remembering?

________ is a process that plays a critical role in creating a long-lasting memory, whereas ________ occurs when that memory is brought back to mind in a new context.

If someone cannot remember their first drum lesson, but they can play the drums, they have a problem with ________ memory, but their ________ memory is intact.

Activity in the ________ helps both to signal the importance of emotional events and to consolidate memories of them. However, those memories are created by activity in the __________.

What is an example of recognition memory?

Red decides that he should study for 30 minutes every day for two weeks before his exam. Which study strategy is Red using?

What does Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve demonstrate about forgetting?

Parents in North America spend more time speaking with their children about past events in their lives (both those that are recent and more distant) than do parents in some other cultures. This is thought to be the reason why children of North American parents retrieve more childhood memories as well memories from earlier in their lives. This is an example of what principle?

In a free-recall task, the recency effect refers to an increased recall of items from the _______ part of the list. The explanation for this increase is that these items are more likely to be in _______ memory when it is time to recall the list.

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Parking your car on Monday gets in the way of remembering where you parked your car on Tuesday.

  

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Forgetting what your uncle said at dinner because you weren’t paying attention

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Deliberately trying to forget a scary car accident

For the scenario below, select the most likely cause of the forgetting: Failing to recall the name of a famous actress that you’ve seen in many movies and are a fan of, even though you’re sure you know her name