Exam 6: Memory

The portion of long-term memory that stores specific information of personally experienced events is called ________ memory.

Retrograde amnesia is characterized by forgetting ________.

Explicit and implicit memories seem to involve ________.

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

Procedural memories appear to be located primarily in the ________.

Broadbent's filter theory states that the sensory filters operate like the volume control on a radio, rather than a toggle switch.

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

Treisman's modified filter theory states that the sensory filters operate like the volume control on a radio, rather than a toggle switch.

Visual information is generally erased from the sensory registers in ________.

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

Which of the following sensory registers have been studied more extensively than any others?

Describe the form(s) in which information is coded and maintained in short-term memory.

Grouping and organizing information so that it fits into meaningful units is called chunking.

Summarize the research on the biological bases of memory, explaining how memories are formed and where various types of memories are stored.

Our visual sensation of a passing automobile would be initially stored in ________.

Our auditory sensation of someone's voice would be initially stored in ________.

In the famous case of H. M., after having part of his brain removed, he could no longer ________.

You look up a telephone number in the directory. You find the name and the number: 3531416. For a split second, the image of the number resides in ________. The image fades quickly, yet you manage to keep the number in ________ through ________.

Auditory information ________.

Different domain specific memory systems ________.