Exam 6: Memory

The portion of long-term memory that stores general facts and information is called ________ memory.

Eyewitness testimony is generally very accurate and reliable.

Rote rehearsal is also called ________.

Everything we know is stored in long-term memory.

The type of memory that stores information relating to skills, habits, and other complex perceptual-motor tasks is ________ memory.

The evidence seems clear that elaborative rehearsal serves primarily to ________.

The person who first proposed a filtering process at the entrance to the nervous system was ________.

Alzheimer's disease involves low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin.

The hippocampus is crucial to the functioning of ________ memory.

Each of the following is true of the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon except ________.

If you must study two or more subjects in the same study session, one reason to study dissimilar subjects such as literature and mathematics is that ________.

It is extremely rare for people to recall events that occurred before the age of ________.

According to Treisman's modified filter theory, ________.

Tim is studying for a test. After seven consecutive hours of studying, he finds he can remember what he studied five or six hours ago, but he cannot remember what he studied just ten minutes ago. Tim's memory problems are best explained by ________.

Material stored in short-term memory remains there for about ________ and then fades unless rehearsed or practiced.

George imagines a lawyer's office as having a large mahogany desk, with leather chairs, surrounded by large bookshelves full of law books and framed diplomas and law degrees hanging from wood-paneled walls. His vision of a lawyer's office is a(n) ________.

Becoming instantly enraged at the sight of a Nazi swastika is an example of a(n) ________ memory.

In one study, adults who had graduated from high school more than 40 years earlier were able to recognize about ________ percent of their classmates.

Remembering a friend's description of a recent cross-country skiing trip by associating the things she describes with a film you have seen on the subject is ________ rehearsal.

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