Exam 6: Memory

Memories concerning events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ________.

Compare and contrast rote rehearsal with elaborative rehearsal.

It is extremely rare for people to recall events that occurred before the age of ________.

Define "childhood amnesia" and describe the factors that may contribute to childhood amnesia.

The words "boat" and "goat" are most likely to become confused in short-term memory because ________.

Retroactive interference of long-term memory means ________.

Retrograde amnesia is characterized by forgetting ________.

Elaborative rehearsal is the process through which ________.

The cashier at McDonald's says, "That will be $3.17 please." What kind of code would most people use to remember "$3.17" while they are reaching for their money?

Visual information is generally erased from the sensory registers in ________.

The finding that when asked to recall a list of unrelated items memory is better for the items at the beginning and at the end of the list is known as the ________.

Explain what reconstructive memory is and how it can sometimes cause difficulties in our ability to accurately remember past events.

Someone asks you who the twenty-second president of the United States was and you can't remember. To aid your memory, the person then tells you that the person's name is the same as that of a large city on Lake Erie, but you still can't remember it. The person then tells you it is either John Sherman, Thomas Bayard, or Grover Cleveland. Upon hearing the names, you instantly recognize that Grover Cleveland is the answer. In this situation, the name Grover Cleveland acted as a(n) ________.

Which of the following pairs of letters would most likely be confused in an experiment on short-term memory?

If you want to remember something for a couple of minutes, the most effective device is ________.

When we are pricing items in a grocery store, and we attempt to remember the prices of three different brands of 7-ounce cans of tuna fish by repeating them again and again, the information is being held in ________.

Identify and briefly describe the four major types of long-term memory.

Each of the following is recommended by your text for improving your memory except ________.

The chemical and structural changes that occur in neurons and neural connections when memories are formed are collectively known as ________.

Many middle-aged adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ________.