Exam 6: Memory

The process of selectively looking, listening, smelling, tasting, and feeling is called ________.

The memories primarily located in the cerebellum are ________ memories.

Memories concerning events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ________.

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains, he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name. The kind of memory he is exhibiting by remembering his home's location and the names of his wife and children is ________ memory.

The auditory equivalent of the icon is the ________.

Rote rehearsal is ________.

Someone a short distance away, to whom you have been paying no attention, quietly speaks your name, and suddenly you are attending to that conversation. This is an example of ________.

Experiments known as distractor studies have found most of the evidence supporting ________ theory.

Of the following, the hippocampus is least involved in ________ memory.

Which of the following statements is true?

Forgetting can result from each of the following except ________.

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

The ability to remember the things that we have experienced, imagined, and learned is known as ________.

Procedural memories appear to be located primarily in the ________.

Some of the simplest mnemonic techniques are rhymes and jingles.

If you want to remember something for a couple of minutes, the most effective device is ________.

Material is transferred from short-term to long-term memory through ________.

The principal tool for holding information in short-term memory is ________.

Elderly people suffering from Alzheimer's disease have damage to the ________.

Current research indicates that memories consist of ________.