Exam 6: Memory

The term "photographic memory" refers to the phenomenon of ________.

Victims of childhood sexual abuse can forget the abusive incident.

Researchers have found that episodic and semantic memories are stored in ________.

Describe the purpose and functioning of the sensory registers. In your discussion, compare and contrast the capacity and functioning of the visual and auditory registers.

The sensory registers have a ________ capacity and hold information for a ________ time.

A set of beliefs of expectations about something based on past experience is a(n) ________.

Which of the following is true of memory and culture?

Emotional memories are dependent on the ________.

Short-term memory has ________ primary tasks.

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 ________.

Identify and briefly describe the four major types of long-term memory.

Memory for information that was unintentionally retrieved from memory is called ________ memory.

Retrograde amnesia is characterized by forgetting ________.

If you want to hold on to information for just a minute or two, the most effective device is rote rehearsal.

Sitting in a very noisy restaurant, you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing. This is an example of ________.

Long-term memory is what we are attending to at any given moment.

The meaning of the word "civilization" would be stored in ________.

When remembering verbal messages, we usually remember the ________.

Of the following, the ________ is most important in the ability to remember spatial relationships.

The computer-like model used to describe the way humans encode, store, and retrieve information is the ________ model.