Deck 7: A: Memory

Question 1

False memories are especially likely to occur if you have thought about the imagined event many times.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Flashbulb memories,unlike other memories,are accurate records of the past.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Elaborative rehearsal is defined as the rote repetition of material in order to prolong exposure.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Long-term potentiation may represent the first stages of memory.

Question 5

The tendency for recall of the items in the middle of the list to surpass recall of the first and last items on a list is called the serial position effect.

Question 6

An effective way to conceptualize memory is to think of it as a movie camera that records each moment of a person's life.

Question 7

In general,psychologists agree that the inability to remember experiences during the first years of life is due to the defence mechanism of repression.

Question 8

In the Atkinson-Shiffrin model,incoming information must make a brief stop in the sensory stores,the gateway to memory.

Question 9

George Miller's estimate of the capacity of short-term memory is the "magical 2 to 20 range."

Question 10

Declarative memories are the type of long-term memories that you are aware of.