3a Flashcards
(9 cards)
When asked to memorize the 15 letters, C I A C B S A B C F B I I R S, Mary reorganized them into CIA, CBS, ABC, FBI, and IRS. Mary used a tactic called:
chunking
Gina adequately studied for her short-answer psychology exam. However, while taking the final, she could not remember the material she previously retained. According to the computer information-processing model of memory, Gina is having difficulty with:
retrieval
After Maya gave her friend the password to a protected website, the friend was able to remember it only long enough to type it into the password box. In this instance, the password was clearly stored in her friend’s _____ memory.
short term
Which of these will one MOST likely store as an implicit memory?
one’s name
the date of one’s birth
one’s conditioned fear of guns
a mental image of one’s best friend
one’s conditioned fear of guns
Both _____ and _____ are effective effortful processing strategies for the retention of the material that one is encoding as one studies.
deep processing; self testing
Ricardo distributes his study time rather than cramming because he wants to retain the information for the long term. He is taking advantage of the _____ effect.
spacing
The retention of information over time is called:
storage
Phone companies created seven-digit phone numbers because this amount BEST suits the capacity of our:
short term memory
