Exam 6: Memory

Alzheimer's disease may involve below-normal levels of the neurotransmitter ________.

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words "INK" and "LATE." This tactic is called ________.

The most accurate description of short-term memory's capacity is probably to say that it can hold ________.

Compare and contrast rote rehearsal with elaborative rehearsal.

Short-term memory usually has only one task to perform at a time.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ________.

Explain what reconstructive memory is and how it can sometimes cause difficulties in our ability to accurately remember past events.

Arnie finally got the telephone number of a girl he'd been wanting to ask out for a date. Unfortunately, he had nothing to write the number on when it was told to him. To keep from forgetting the number, he simply repeats it aloud until he can find a pen and some paper. His memory tactic is called ________.

Younger adults are more likely than adults over age 50 to remember events from relatively early in life.

When two memory tasks are presented in different sensory modalities (for instance visual and auditory) ________.

Information is grouped for storage in short-term memory through the process of ________.

Your memories of personal experiences such as what you wore to work yesterday or what you ate for breakfast this morning are stored in ________.

The type of memory that is essentially a diary or daily journal that lets you "go back in time" and revisit past experiences is called ________ memory.

The type of memory that is most like an encyclopedia or a dictionary is ________ memory.

Short-term memories seem to be located primarily in the ________.

Head injuries, such as concussions, are a common cause of ________.

Compare and contrast Broadbent's filter theory with Treisman's modified filter theory. Which theory best accounts for the ways in which people select what they attend to from the massive amount of information entering the sensory registers?

Implicit memory includes ________ memories.

Which of the following statements is not true?

Our recollection of the events that have occurred in our life and when those events took place is called ________ memory.