Exam 8: Memory

You want to work on an essay that you have saved on the hard drive of your computer.You search through the hierarchically organized folders on your computer until you find and open the document you want.It appears on the screen of your monitor.Relative to the information-processing system metaphor of human memory,this example is most similar to:

The iconic store and the echoic store are subsystems of short-term memory.

Any external or internal stimulus that triggers the activation of information stored in long-term memory is called a(n)________________.

Flashbulb memories are often vivid and easy to remember and research has shown that they are frequently ___________.

The superior recall for words presented at the end of a list is referred to as the ____________ effect.

The fact that we are usually unable to recall or even to recognize the various details of a penny from memory was discussed as an example of how failure to __________ information can produce forgetting.

A memory researcher claims that a concept such as "dog" is triggered by the simultaneous firing of nodes #8,#47,and #123 in a network,but if node #8 is simultaneously triggered with nodes #9 and #301,an entirely different concept appears in the mind.The views of this researcher are most consistent with the ____________ theory of memory:

Making a grocery list and taking notes for a class involve encoding that is initiated intentionally and requires conscious attention.These are both examples of _____________.

The two subcategories of declarative memory are:

Carl and Ursula are taking a second language course and they study together.Each week Carl and Ursula study their new vocabulary words by generating another associated word and a short one-sentence memory that involves the word.Last week Carl and Ursula decided to cut down on the amount of preparation that they each did by taking turns generating the cues for the vocabulary words.When Carl used Ursula's notes to study that first week,he did not do well on the exam because:

What is sensory memory? Describe the experimental design used by George Sperling to measure the iconic store,and summarize his results.Besides the iconic store,what is the other major sensory register and how long does it typically last compared to the iconic store?

According to Alan Baddeley,the central executive is a control process that is part of long-term memory.

A person who has received damage to his amygdala will most likely:

Because it requires people to attend to the meaning of the information being presented,elaborative rehearsal is more effective in terms of facilitating the process where information is effectively stored in long-term memory than ______________________.

Vivid recollections of distinctive positive or negative events that trigger strong emotional responses are called:

Describe in detail the model of memory originally proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.

When attempting to memorize the position of chess pieces on a board,research on expert chess players suggests that they group pieces together that serve the same function using _________________.

The iconic store and echoic store are subsystems that are important parts of:

The serial position effect refers to how:

According to the neural network model of memory,if a small portion of your brain is removed for medical reasons,your memory might: