Exam 8: Memory

Mica, five years old, was very good at remembering details such as the jersey numbers of her favorite hockey players. When asked how she did it, she mentioned that she relied on a highly detailed team picture that she has at home. This example illustrates what memory phenomenon?

Describe the difference between semantic and episodic memory.

What type of memory storage is described as temporary memory that will be lost if it is not repeated before being passed on to long term memory?

Photographic or eidetic memories usually occur in adults.

When false information is derived from an internal source (namely our own minds), it is referred to as memory distortions due to imagination.

What type of memory distortion is associated with failing to accurately remember where information was learned?

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, psychologist George Sperling conducted key studies of:

In 1885, _________pioneered memory research by studying his own memory.

Explicit memory is to ______ memory as implicit memory is to _______ memory.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in the brain's _________.

According to your text, the need to reconstruct rather than simply retrieve memories stems from the _________ code used in long-term memory.

Lucinda remembered getting a special doll for her 8^th birthday. Which type of explicit memory is being described in this example?

When we learn new information, what steps lead to the production of proteins?

Provide an example of how organization can enhance our ability to encode information in long term memory.

Information may last for _______ seconds in sensory memory. The capacity of sensory memory is _______.

What theory is built on the concept that memory leaves a physical trace on the brain when it is acquired?

Dissociative identity disorder was formerly termed ___________ disorder.

"She did WHAT??" your roommate exclaims as you relate an anecdote about a mutual friend. Your roommate is processing your story in _________ memory.

Grouping pieces of information together to expand the effective capacity of working memory is termed _________.

Which of the following sequences best reflects the order of stages in the three-stage memory model, from first to last?