Although Ken has been tying his own shoes every day for the past 30 years, he is having a hard time describing how to do it to his four-year-old daughter Kendra. His difficulty is because ________ memory is inaccessible to conscious awareness.
a. expert
b. semantic
c. episodic
d. procedural
Answer: D. Procedural
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Psychology Chapter 8
- Which of the following mechanisms of forgetting has the least evidence that it occurs?
- In a study by Jenkins and Dallenbach (1924), students who slept during the time between learning new information and testing remembered better than those who remained awake. The study supported the idea that forgetting is due to ________ .
- What does the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve show?
- Roderick was hit so hard when he caught the winning touchdown pass on the last play of the game that he was knocked out. When he regained consciousness, he was unable to remember any of the game. Roderick is suffering from ________ .
- In an experiment, Loftus and Palmer (1974) asked students to watch a video of a car accident. Some students were asked to estimate the speed of the cars as they "smashed" into each other; others were asked the speed of the cars when they "contacted" each other. Which students were likely to remember seeing broken glass?
- Memory researchers believe that most, if not all, forgetting is caused by
- What is the advantage of schema-based remembering?
- Assuming you have already read the chapter, which of the following is the best strategy for preparing for a multiple-choice exam?
- Mason amazes his classmates by giving his speech without notes. He does this by mentally attaching the main points to object in his house and then imagining walking through his house while giving a speech. He is using an ancient mnemonic device called ________ .
- During the drive home from work, Gary's wife calls and asks him to stop at the grocery store and pick up the following list of items: milk, bananas, eggs, juice, apples, cheese, tea, yogurt, bread. Gary arrives home with six of the items. Which three is he most likely to have forgotten?
- Which of the following is NOT a type of long-term memory?
- Which of the following is NOT one of the mechanisms of Baddeley's working memory model?
- Although both lists are the same length, CATDOGPIG is easier to remember than CXVRTDMLG due to a short-term memory strategy called ________ .
- ________ is an exact copy of the environmental message, whereas ________ is usually in the form of an inner "voice."
- In the Peterson distractor task, people are asked to recall a short list of three letters after delays ranging from 3 to 18 seconds. They were asked to count backward by threes during the delay. What does this test measure?