Exam 10: Memory

The ________ is the part of the brain that is involved with the formation and consolidation of memories associated with fear and other emotions.

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

In the three-box model of memory, short-term memory holds a limited amount of information.

Irene swears that she was there the night her best friend got into a fight with her ex-boyfriend. It takes several of her friends to convince her that she was not. Which of the following likely made Irene's fake memory seem so real to her?

According to the ________ theory of forgetting, one's original memory of an event can be erased by new and misleading information.

Moderate amounts of hormones released by the adrenal glands during stress and emotional arousal tend to:

Déjà vu may occur when:

When the priming method is used for measuring implicit memory, a person typically reads or listens to information and is later tested to see whether the information affects performance on the same or another type of task.

Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information is called:

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

Visual images remain in the sensory register for a maximum of:

If you are shown a long list of items and then are asked to recall them, your retention of any particular item will likely depend on its place in the list.

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

When six-year-old Sven's parents overhear him describing his third birthday party, they look at each other in surprise. Sven appears to remember that the birthday cake his father was baking burned and his aunt had to run out and buy one from a bakery, even though Sven was not present when those events occurred. Sven's memory illustrates the concept of _________.

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

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

The superiority of recognition over recall was demonstrated when participants, aged 17 to 74, were asked to recall and recognize the names of their high school classmates. Briefly describe the results of this study.

According to the ________ theory of forgetting, information in memory eventually disappears if it is not accessed.

Trivial Pursuit, a popular board game that tests a player's skills in retrieving and reproducing popular culture and general knowledge, requires the recall of explicit memories.

________ holds and operates on information that has been retrieved from long-term memory for temporary use.