Exam 6: Memory

Victims of childhood sexual abuse can forget the abusive incident.

The sensory registers ________.

If the most recent theories regarding the capacity of short-term memory are correct, then ________.

Someone asks you who the twenty-second president of the United States was and you can't remember. To aid your memory, the person then tells you that the person's name is the same as that of a large city on Lake Erie, but you still can't remember it. The person then tells you it is either John Sherman, Thomas Bayard, or Grover Cleveland. Upon hearing the names, you instantly recognize that Grover Cleveland is the answer. In this situation, the name Grover Cleveland acted as a(n) ________.

The icon and the echo refer to images in ________.

Explain the differences among retrograde amnesia, Korsakoff's disease, and Alzheimer's disease.

It is easier to remember the names of seven people you just met at a party than it is to remember their addresses (even if both pieces of information were given to you at the same time), because there is a(n)________.

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) ________.

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

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

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

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means ________.

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.

Leslie is shown the word "tour." Later on she is shown a list of word fragments, such as "___ou___," and asked to fill in the blanks. She is more likely to complete the word as "tour," than are other people who had not been previously shown the word "tour." This is an example of ________.

Using repetition and deliberate practice to master skills and habits is essential to ________ memories.

Recent research suggests that short-term memory can hold as much information as long-term memory.

The brain structure involved in the functioning of new long-term semantic and episodic memories is the ________.

Research has demonstrated that when people are exposed to highly stressful events, their memory for the emotional aspect of the event is ________. Their memory for the nonemotional aspects of the event is ________.

The auditory equivalent of the icon is the ________.

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 ________.