Exam 6: Memory

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 ________.

Explicit memory includes ________ memories.

The two primary tasks of short-term memory are to ________.

Compare and contrast Broadbent's filter theory with Treisman's modified filter theory. Which theory best accounts for the ways in which people select what they attend to from the massive amount of information entering the sensory registers?

The inability to recall events immediately preceding an accident or injury, but without loss of earlier memory is called ________ amnesia.

Reconstructive memory can be used for social or personal self-defense.

Summarize the research on autobiographical memory and flashbulb memories. How accurate are these memories, who is most likely to have memories of early life experiences, and what kinds of early memories are people most likely to have?

Your memories of personal experiences such as what you wore to work yesterday or what you ate for breakfast this morning are stored in ________.

The amygdala is most involved in the processing of ________ memory.

A soap opera character is unable to remember anything about the car that ran her down on the street and gave her a concussion. This is an example of ________.

Ebbinghaus found that ________.

Alzheimer's disease may involve below-normal levels of the neurotransmitter ________.

Each of the following is true of eyewitness testimony except ________.

The finding that people tend to better remember information if they try to recall it while surrounded by the same physical cues (wall color, smells, sounds, desks, etc.) in which they learned it, is called ________ memory.

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

A mental representation of an event, an object, a situation, a person, a process, or a relationship that is stored in memory and that leads you to expect your experience to be organized in certain ways is a(n) ________.

Head injuries, such as concussions, are a common cause of ________.

Chunking is ________.

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

Which of the following theorists proposed that we pay attention to information that in some way stands out because of its physical properties, while we filter out other information completely?