Exam 10: Memory

Give three explanations for childhood amnesia (be specific).

Vivid recollections of emotional events are called "flashbulb memories."

Shannon is currently a college professor. Which memory from Shannon's fourth grade experience would most likely be an episodic memory?

Long-term potentiation is thought to be the biological mechanism of long-term memory.

The process by which a long-term memory becomes durable and stable is called:

The inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about the event elsewhere is called ________.

Auditory images are held in the sensory register for one-quarter to one-half second.

________ could be called "knowing how to do something" memories.

Famous psychologist Jean Piaget once reported having a personal memory of almost being kidnapped when he was a 2 year old. It wasn't until Piaget was 15 years old that the nurse confessed that she had made up the entire incident. What does Piaget's experience reveal about autobiographical memories and reconstruction of the past?

In his work with rabbits, Richard Thompson showed that classical conditioning of the eyeblink response depends on activity in the ________.

________ acts as a holding bin, retaining information in a highly accurate form until we can select items for attention.

As she studies her physics textbook, Marilyn wants to make sure that she remembers that sound intensity is measured in units called decibels and that each decibel is one-tenth of a bel, which is a unit named after Alexander Graham Bell. Marilyn creates a visual image of ten little elf-like Bell figures trying to turn up the volume of a huge stereo. Her strategy is called:

Without the testimony of eyewitnesses, many guilty people would go free. But some convictions are tragic mistakes because memory is reconstructive and the testimony isn't always reliable. Describe conditions under which errors in eyewitness testimony are most likely to occur.

Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened, is called ________.

The three basic memory processes are __________, storage, and __________.

The cerebellum has been associated with __________ memories; the hippocampus has been associated with __________ memories.

One objection to the three-box model of memory is that:

Jay is furious when his midterm is returned with a C grade. He tells his sociology professor that he had read each of the assigned chapters three times and if someone can do that and just be average then there is something wrong with the test. Based on your understanding of critical thinking and memory, what is wrong with Jay's reasoning? What are some other possible reasons for Jay's average performance? How should Jay study for the next test in order to get a better grade?

Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades?

Hormone research suggests that if you want to remember well, you should be as relaxed as possible while learning.