Exam 6: Memory

In _____ amnesia,memory is lost for events preceding an injury or accident; in _____ amnesia,memory is lost for events following an injury or accident.

While a computer's hard drive may be likened to the memory process of storage,its keyboard is analogous to the process of:

The encoding specificity principle is supported by the results of recent neuroimaging studies.

Echoic memory lasts longer than iconic memory.

Jerome cannot open his term paper on his computer because the file has become corrupt.Kaci cannot find her term paper on her computer because of all the other documents she has stored on the hard drive.Jerome's failure to retrieve his paper is analogous to the _____ theory of forgetting,whereas Kaci's failure better resembles the _____ theory.

Martina is reminded of the levels of processing framework when one of her professors tells the class,"You'll probably do better on the test if you put more effort into understanding what the chapter's trying to say in the first place."

A "one-hit-wonder" song popular 5 years ago comes on the radio."I used to love this song!" Clyde exclaims."Who sang it?" "Oh! I know! It's ...it's ...Darn! It's on the tip of my tongue!" Ralph responds.Ralph is experiencing a failure of the memory process called:

The concept of working memory represents a contemporary conceptualization of _____ memory.

Professor Merrick conducts an experiment and finds that people in a good mood tend to remember happy events they have experienced whereas people in a bad mood tend to remember unpleasant events they have experienced.This finding is MOST consistent with the:

The hippocampus is located in the _____ lobe.

Amelia remarks that she needs to learn the text's section on the structures of the brain for an upcoming test.Brian responds that he couldn't remember the function of the hippocampus on a test the preceding day.Amelia is making reference to the memory process called _____.Brian is referring to the memory process called _____.

Long-term potentiation refers to the process whereby:

The central executive is a component of _____ memory.

The frontal lobe is to _____ memory as the temporal lobe is to _____ memory.

Decay is to interference as retrieval is to storage.

According to the National Institute on Aging (2013),Alzheimer's disease affects as many as _____ million Americans.

Massed practice refers to:

The textbook describes the case of Henry Molaison,also known as H.M.After brain surgery,H.M suffered severe memory loss.However,H.M.experienced greater difficulty encoding new memories than in retrieving old ones.H.M.'s _____ amnesia was more profound than his _____ amnesia.

Explicit memory is to implicit memory as automatic processing is to effortful processing.

In ____ interference,information learned earlier disrupts the recall of information learned more recently; in ____ interference,recently learned information disrupts the recall of information learned earlier.