Exam 10: Memory

When you recall the names of the days of the week, you are relying on ________ memory.

If a child is trying to memorize the alphabet, which sequence should present the greatest Level of

Elaborative rehearsal is defined as the rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory.

Research suggests that the best way to encourage truthful testimony by children is to:

The higher the anxiety level of a person, the more accurately he or she is able to describe an event.

In general, information in short-term memory is retained for about ________ if it is not rehearsed.

A friend of yours claims to remember her birth, her first tooth, and her first birthday party. She is most likely to be (a) lying, (b) confabulating, (c) repressing, (d) revealing wishful thinking, (e) accurately remembering.

Auditory images remain in the sensory register for about:

Many researchers believe that long-term potentiation is the process underlying many, and perhaps all, forms of learning and memory.

Camille is furious with her history professor. "I read the chapter three times, but I still failed the exam," she fumes. "The test must have been unfair." What's wrong with Camille's reasoning, and what are some other possible explanations for her poor performance, based on principles of critical thinking and what you have learned so far about memory?

Different aspects of a memory are probably processed separately and stored at different locations that are distributed across wide areas of the brain, with all the sites participating in the representation of the event or concept as a whole.

Ambassador McKenzie was about to ask a French diplomat to repeat his last comment, but then his ________ enabled him to "select" what had been said while ignoring all the extraneous sounds in the reception room.

Given the current research on recovered memories, one should be skeptical if a person says that:

The serial-position effect is the tendency for recall of the items in the middle of the list to surpass recall of the first and last items on a list.

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

Most researchers agree that the memories people say they have of their first three years of life are based on:

When a man at his 20th high school reunion sees his old friends, he recalls incidents he thought were long forgotten. Why?

Memories that involve knowing how to do something without really thinking about it, like combing your hair, are called declarative memories.

________ memory refers to the recollection of a personally experienced event and the context in which it occurred.

The relearning method, devised by Hermann Ebbinghaus over a century ago, assesses whether or not you learn material more quickly the second time you learn it.