Exam 9: Memory

Nancy was daydreaming about her college plans during a boring lecture on the history of computers.She doesn't remember that ENIAC was the first functioning digital computer because she wasn't paying attention.Nancy's poor memory is best explained in terms of

When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened,which measure of memory is being used?

Joshua vividly recalls his feelings and what he was doing at the exact moment when he heard of his grandfather's unexpected death.This best illustrates ________ memory.

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system is called ________ memory.

The availability of glucose energy necessary for memory consolidation is most likely to be enhanced by

Arnold was not paying attention to his professor's lecture.But when the professor asked him what she had just said,he was surprised that he had a fleeting memory of her last few words.Arnold's experience best illustrates ________ memory.

Information learned while a person is ________ is best recalled when that person is ________.

Implicit memory is to explicit memory as ________ is to ________.

Craik and Tulving experimentally demonstrated that people effectively remember seeing a specific word after they decide whether that word fits into an incomplete sentence.This research highlighted the effectiveness of

The tip-of-the-tongue forgetting experienced by older adults can best be explained in terms of the greater difficulty older people have with

Although Ron typically smokes two packs of cigarettes a day,he recalls smoking little more than a pack a day.This poor memory best illustrates

Retroactive interference refers to the

Many of the experiment participants who were asked how fast two cars in a filmed traffic accident were going when they smashed into each other subsequently recalled seeing broken glass at the scene of the accident.This experiment best illustrated

Peterson and Peterson demonstrated that unrehearsed short-term memories for three consonants almost completely decay in as short a time as

Passing an electric current through the brain during electroconvulsive therapy is most likely to disrupt

The process in which memories registered in the hippocampus are transferred for long-term storage to other regions of the brain illustrates

The receptor sites of receiving neurons have been observed to increase following

When you have to make a long-distance call,dialing an unfamiliar area code plus a seven-digit number,you are likely to have trouble retaining the just-looked-up number.This best illustrates the limited capacity of ________ memory.

A friend claims that the faster you read,the more you remember.Use your knowledge of effortful processing and effective encoding strategies to refute your friend's claim.

The often unconscious activation of particular associations in memory is called