The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, 1st Edition (King)

Chapter 8: Memory

Fill in the Blanks

1.

In terms of memory encoding, focusing on more than one thing simultaneously is called .
2.

An aid that is used to help remember something is called a(n) .
3.

Auditory sensory memory is called memory.
4.

Within working memory, the integrates information from the phonological loop, the visuospatial scratch pad, and long-term memory.
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The phenomenon refers to the experience of a person being confident that he or she knows something, but not being able to retrieve the information from memory.
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It is usually easier to remember things that come at the beginning of a list than to remember those that come in the middle of a list. This is called the effect.
7.

Vividly remembering the specifics of an important event (such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks or the assassination of President Kennedy) is called a(n) .
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