Exam 10: Memory

________ memory refers to a vivid, detailed recollection of an emotional event.

There is concrete evidence that early traumatic events cause memory dissociation.

Suppose you must memorize a long list of words that includes desk, pig, gold, dog, chair, silver, table, rooster, bed, copper, and horse. If you can recall the words in any order you wish, how are you likely to group these items in recall? Why?

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

The parts of the brain involved in the storage of events are not well-developed until a few years after birth.

After reading about glucose and memory, should you immediately start gulping down lemonade? Why or why not?

The inability to remember events and experiences that occurred during the first two or three years of life is termed ________.

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

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

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

A long-lasting increase in the strength of synaptic responsiveness is called:

Because they are so vivid, flashbulb memories remain perfectly accurate over time.

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

In a classic study of eyewitness accounts and leading questions, people were shown short films showing car collisions. How did the wording of the questions about the accidents influence participants' estimates of the speed the cars were traveling at the time of the collision?

Memories of general knowledge, including facts, rules, concepts and propositions, are called:

Sarah is doing an arithmetic problem. The numbers and instructions for doing the necessary operations for each step will be held in her ___________ memory as she solves the problem.

Long-term memories undergo a gradual period of consolidation before they "solidify" and become stable.

The parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of memory represents the contents of memory as connections among a huge number of interacting processing units, distributed in a vast network and all operating in parallel.

It has been suggested that autobiographical memories cannot be formed until a child's self-concept has emerged.

Memories for the performance of actions or skills are called: