Exam 6: Memory

Leslie is shown the word "tour." Later on she is shown a list of word fragments, such as "___ou___," and asked to fill in the blanks. She is more likely to complete the word as "tour," than are other people who had not been previously shown the word "tour." This is an example of ________.

Summarize the research on the biological bases of memory, explaining how memories are formed and where various types of memories are stored.

An untreatable neurological disorder involving severe, progressive memory loss is called ________.

The memories primarily located in the cerebellum are ________ memories.

No single part of the brain is solely responsible for memory.

Describe the purpose and functioning of the sensory registers. In your discussion, compare and contrast the capacity and functioning of the visual and auditory registers.

When people are asked to recall names of people, there is increased activity in a particular area of the ________ lobe.

A possible limitation of Ebbinghaus's studies was that he ________.

Some of the simplest mnemonic techniques are rhymes and jingles.

The sensory registers ________.

The finding that people tend to better remember information if they try to recall it while surrounded by the same physical cues (wall color, smells, sounds, desks, etc.) in which they learned it, is called ________ memory.

Our auditory sensation of someone's voice would be initially stored in ________.

People who can perform seemingly impossible feats of memory because of their highly developed memory skills are known as ________.

Long-term semantic memories seem to be located primarily in the ________.

The ability to reproduce unusually sharp and detailed images of something you have seen is known as ________.

Remembering a friend's description of a recent cross-country skiing trip by associating the things she describes with a film you have seen on the subject is ________ rehearsal.

The hippocampus is crucial to the functioning of ________ memory.

If you are trying to memorize a list of numbers, which of the following would be most likely to cause you to forget or mix up the numbers on your list?

Our memories of general knowledge items such as the meanings of words or the dates of famous historical events are stored in ________ memory.

The first truly scientific memory experiments were conducted by ________, who used himself as a subject.