Memory aids that use visual imagery (such as peg words) or other organizational devices (such as acronyms) are called ____________ .

Psychologists involved in the study of memories of abuse tend to DISAGREE about which of the following statements? a. Memories of events that happened before age 3 are not reliable. b. We tend to repress extremely upsetting memories. c. Memories can be emotionally upsetting. d. Sexual abuse happens.

Children can be accurate eyewitnesses if a. interviewers give the children hints about what really happened. b. a neutral person asks nonleading questions soon after the event, in words the children can understand. c. the children have a chance to talk with involved adults before the interview. d. interviewers use precise technical and medical terms.

When a situation triggers the feeling that "I've been here before," you are experiencing _____________ _____________ .

The psychological terms for taking in information, retaining it, and later getting it back out are __________ , __________ , and ___________ .

We may recognize a face at a social gathering but be unable to remember how we know that person. This is an example of ____________ ____________ .

Eliza's family loves to tell the story of how she "stole the show" as a 2-year-old, dancing at her aunt's wedding reception. Even though she was so young, Eliza can recall the event clearly. How is this possible?

One reason false memories form is our tendency to fill in memory gaps with our reasonable guesses and assumptions, sometimes based on misleading information. This tendency is an example of a. proactive interference. b. the misinformation effect. c. retroactive interference. d. the forgetting curve.

Freud proposed that painful or unacceptable memories are blocked from consciousness through a mechanism called ____________ .

The hour before sleep is a good time to memorize information, because going to sleep after learning new material minimizes __________ interference.

Ebbinghaus" "forgetting curve" shows that after an initial decline, memory for novel information tends to a. increase slightly. b. decrease noticeably. c. decrease greatly. d. level out.

When forgetting is due to encoding failure, meaningless information has not been transferred from a. the environment into sensory memory. b. sensory memory into long-term memory. c. long-term memory into short-term memory. d. short-term memory into long-term memory.

When tested immediately after viewing a list of words, people tend to recall the first and last items more readily than those in the middle. When retested after a delay, they are most likely to recall a. the first items on the list. b. the first and last items on the list. c. a few items at random. d. the last items on the list.

When you feel sad, why might it help to look at pictures that reawaken some of your best memories?