Exam 6: Memory

People are most likely to be able to perform impressive feats of memory regarding things that are significant to their culture.

The famous Russian mnemonist, Shereshevski ("S"), could easily repeat lists of up to ________ words after having heard or seen them only once.

Tim is studying for a test. After seven consecutive hours of studying, he finds he can remember what he just finished studying, but he can no longer remember what he studied five or six hours ago. Tim's memory problems are best explained by ________.

After an accident in which she suffers a brain injury, Ellen is unable to recall new emotional experiences, even though her emotional memories of events prior to the accident are intact. She has most likely suffered damage to her ________.

The phenomenon whereby most people cannot recall events that occurred in their life before theage of two is called ________.

The process in which new visual information constantly replaces old visual information in the sensory registers almost immediately is called ________.

The ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed images of something you have seen is known as ________.

The capacity of long-term memory is virtually limitless.

Visual information fades more slowly than auditory information.

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 ________.

Research on memory began in the middle of the ________ century.

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

Most information in long-term memory is coded ________.

Forgetting can result from each of the following except ________.

Chunking is a means of ________.

Which of the following statements is true?

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

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 ________.

Researchers have found that long-term retention of information is particularly affected by ________.

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