Exam 6: Extension: Memory

The most important determinant of interference is ________.

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three notes of music for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the notes came immediately, the students usually succeeded. If the instructions came more than three seconds after the notes were played, the students were much less successful. The most plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that in the latter case the echo ________.

The portion of long-term memory that stores specific information of personally experienced events is called ________ memory.

Chunking is ________.

The fact that people recognize that M and M are the same letter faster than they recognize that M and m are the same letter is evidence that ________.

In the famous case of H. M., after having part of his brain removed, he could no longer ________.

Which of the following people is most likely to recall events from early in life?

The first truly scientific memory experiments were conducted by ________, who used himself as a subject.

Patients who are treated with electroconvulsive shock therapy often suffer memory losses for events that occurred up to three hours before the treatment. These memory problems are most likely due to disruption of the ________.

The finding that when asked to recall a list of unrelated items memory is better for the items at the beginning and at the end of the list is known as the ________.