Exam 10: Memory

Implicit memory is usually measured through recall tasks.

Confabulation is especially likely to occur if you have thought about the imagined event many times.

The multiple-choice question that you are reading at this moment requires ________ to answer correctly.

The ________ theory of forgetting proposes that memory fades with time and lack of use.

Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts and actions, is called:

Preschoolers' memories are more vulnerable to suggestive questions than are the memories of school-aged children.

The narratives that we compose about our lives have a profound influence on our memories. Analyze how stories are used to provide themes to our lives.

In accordance with the three-box model of memory, the memory system involved in the prolonged storage of information is known as ________.

________ is a memory system that includes short-term memory and executive processes that control attention and the retrieval.

Mr. Musselman is the head coach of the high school football team. He notices that, after learning the names of the players on the team this year, he has trouble remembering the names of the players from the previous year. In fact, he sometimes says the name of a current player when he is referring to a player from the previous year. This is an example of:

Recognition is the ability to identify previously encountered information.

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

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?

The sensory register is made up of many separate subsystems, one for each sense.

Is long-term potentiation associated with

Critics of the three-box model of memory are likely to agree that:

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

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 ________.

When Sir Frederic Bartlett asked people to read unfamiliar stories and then to recite the stories to him later, he found that the details were often changed to make the story coherent.

When you roller blade, are you relying on procedural, semantic, or episodic memory? How about when you recall the months of the year? Or when you remember falling while roller blading on an icy January day?