Memory - Psychology

To gain accurate eyewitness testimony from children, interviewers must

• be sensitive to repressed memories.   
• provide details to the child before the interview
• use neutral words that children can understand.
• employ leading questions to prompt a response

The process of getting information into memory is called_______

• priming
• chunking
• encoding
• storing

Sherry easily remembers the telephone reservation number for Holiday Inns by using the mnemonic 1-800-HOLIDAY. She is using a memory aid known as

• the peg-word system.
• implicit memory.
• the serial position effect
• chunking

The human capacity for storing long-term memories is

• roughly equal to seven units of information
• enhanced through hypnosis
• essentially unlimited
• typically much greater in young children than in adults

Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events are called

• repressed memories.
• sensory memories
• mood-congruent memories
• flashbulb memories

Superior memory for rap lyrics that include the most rhymes best illustrates the value of

• acoustic encoding
• mood-congruent memory
• priming
• the spacing effect

The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory

• explicit   
• short-term   
• implicit   
• sensory

Iconic memory refers to

• visually encoded images in long-term memory
• the encoded meanings of words and events in short-term memory
• photographic, or picture-image, memory that lasts for only a few tenths of a secon

Your ability to immediately recognize the voice over the phone as your mother's illustrates the value of

• chunking
• acoustic encoding
• implicit memory
• state-dependent memory

Repeating someone's name several times shortly after being introduced to that person is an effective strategy for

• chunking
• priming
• automatic processing
• rehearsal