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The key to the partial report method of Sperling’s study of sensory memory was to __________.

You train your dog, Atticus, to salivate at the sound of a bell. Then you ring the bell every 5 minutes and don’t follow the ringing with food for Atticus. He salivates less and less and finally stops salivating at all when the bell rings. But the next morning, when you ring the bell, Atticus salivates! What term is used to explain the reappearance of this response?

Personal facts and memories of one’s personal history are parts of ___________ memory.

Nigel always turns the aquarium light on before putting fish food into the tank. After a while, he notices that the fish swim to the top to look for the food as soon as he turns on the light. In this example, the __________ is the unconditioned stimulus.

__________ classical conditioning, operant conditioning requires the organism to voluntarily produce the __________.

Godden and Baddeley found that if you study on land, you do better when tested on land, and if you study underwater, you do better when tested underwater. This finding is an example of __________.

Which of the following offers the BEST analogy for the way long-term memory is conceptualized?

Sung-Mi is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the __________ effect.

When the sound of a word is the aspect that cannot be retrieved, leaving only the feeling of knowing the word without the ability to pronounce it, this is known as __________.

Who is MOST closely associated with the law of effect?