Unit 7 Cognition Review

Can't remember new information because you keep thinking about old info

• proactive interference

• retroactive interference

• retrograde amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

Her study on the misinformation effect shows that eyewitness testimonies can be wrong

• Mary Calkins

• Mary Ainsworth

• Margaret Washburn

• Elizabeth Loftus

Her study on the misinformation effect shows that eyewitness testimonies can be wrong

• Mary Calkins

• Mary Ainsworth

• Margaret Washburn

• Elizabeth Loftus

Smallest unit of sound that contain meaning (ed, ing)

• phoneme

• morpheme

• babble

• acquisition

In an effort to remember how to spell “rhinoceros,” Samantha spells the word aloud 30 times. She is using a technique known as

• priming
• rehearsal
• the peg-word system
• chunking

Students who restudy course material at the end of a semester in order to pass the AP final exam are especially likely to demonstrate long-term retention of the course material. This best illustrates the value of

• implicit memory
• the serial position effect
• long-term potentation
• the spacing effect

Semantic encoding is to visual encoding as ________ is to ________.

• effortful processing; automatic processing
  
• iconic memory; flashbulb memory
  
• meaning; imagery
  
• implicit memory; explicit memory
  

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

• short-term
  
• explicit
• implicit
• sensory

Fill-in-the-blank test questions measure ________; matching concepts with their definitions measures ________.

• recall; recognition
• recognition; relearning
• recall; relearning
• recognition; rehearsal
  

The title of a song is on the tip of Gerard's tongue, but he cannot recall it until someone mentions the songwriter's name. Gerard's initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused by

• repression.
• encoding failure.
• retrieval failure.
• a physical decay of stored memory.