Chapter 7: Memory

At her school's talent show, Noa answers questions about politics while spinning basketballs on her fingers. The question and answering mostly requires ________ memory, whereas the ball spinning mostly requires ________ memory.

To demonstrate the capacity of iconic memory, George Sperling showed that participants performed better with the ________ procedure.

Mark looks up a number in a phone book but he forgets it before he has a chance to make the call. It sounds like Mark should have spent more effort on

Which of these is not a component of working memory?

Because of the usefulness of the retrieval cues, ________ is usually easier than ________ .

After Meghan meets a group of people, she can remember the name of only the last person she met. This is an example of a(n) ________ effect.

Consider the word Mississippi. Which of these questions asks you to process that word at the deepest level of processing?

You've just memorized a list of nonsense words. You are going to try and recall the words everyday for the next 30 days (without looking back at the list). You would expect to show the most forgetting between

Pavel needs to learn the order of the planets with respect to their distance from the sun. To begin, he imagines Mercury as a giant bun and Venus shaped like a show. It sounds like Pavel is using

At the start of each exam, Sarah reads over the full set of questions to determine which ones she feels pretty sure she'll get right. To make these judgements, Sarah is using

When you enter a restaurant to enjoy a meal, you'll probably put a memory structure known as a(an) ________ to good use.

Your professor wants to give you advice based on the "testing effect." What is he likely to say?