Exam 10: Memory

The medulla is involved in the formation of declarative long-term memories.

Patty reminisces about her wedding. Which of the following would be among Patty's semantic memories?

Maintenance rehearsal involves:

Why is short-term memory sometimes called a "leaky bucket"?

Maria wrote a shopping list prior to going to the grocery store. Unfortunately, when she arrived at the store she realized she had left the list at home. If she is to purchase the items on her list, Maria must rely on which memory task?

On a TV game show, Janet is asked to name the state capital of Michigan. This information is most likely stored in:

Casey was visiting a friend in New York City on September 11, 2001, the day of the attack on the World Trade Center. To her, that day seems frozen in time. She remembers exactly where she was, what she was doing, and what she felt as the morning transpired. This vivid recollection is known as:

For most Americans, which of the following would be considered a chunk?

________ is thought to be a biological mechanism of long-term memory.

Sarah enjoys playing games such as Jeopardy! and Trivial Pursuit, which require her to answer questions based on her ability to recall facts. These types of games test Sarah's:

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 ________.

An accurate way to conceptualize memory is to think of it as a video camera that records each moment of a person's life.

Declarative memories come in two varieties. Name each type and give an example of each from your own declarative memory.

Another name for the parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of memory is the:

Declarative memories include ________ memories and ________ memories.

Which of the following factors is true of cognitive development, and may contribute to childhood amnesia?

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

Mood-congruent memory and state-dependent memory are examples of:

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.

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