Exam 6: Memory

Chunking is a means of ________.

Elderly people suffering from Alzheimer's disease have decreased activity levels of the neurotransmitter ________ in the brain.

After an accident in which she suffers a brain injury, Ellen is unable to recall new emotional experiences, even though her emotional memories of events prior to the accident are intact. She has most likely suffered damage to her ________.

For more than 40 years, the most influential researcher into eyewitness memory has been ________.

Research examining the role of sleep on memory has found that the same neurons and patterns of neuronal activity in the _______ that accompany initial learning are reactivated during subsequent deep sleep.

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words "INK" and "LATE." This tactic is called ________.

The term "photographic memory" refers to the phenomenon of ________.

Memory for information that was intentionally retrieved from memory is called ________ memory.

Compare and contrast the purpose, capacity, and functioning of short-term and long-term memory.

Our visual sensation of a passing automobile would be initially stored in ________.

Long-term memory is sometimes called working memory.

Grouping and organizing information so that it fits into meaningful units is called chunking.

The portion of memory that is more or less permanent and that corresponds with everything we "know" is called ________ memory.

Remembering that the French word "maison" means house by connecting maison with the English word "masonry" illustrates the use of ________.

Younger adults are more likely than adults over age 50 to remember events from relatively early in life.

In one study, adults who had graduated from high school more than 40 years earlier were able to recognize about ________ percent of their classmates.

If you must study two or more subjects in the same study session, one reason to study dissimilar subjects such as literature and mathematics is that ________.

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains, he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name. The kind of memory he is exhibiting by remembering his home's location and the names of his wife and children is ________ memory.

The famous Russian mnemonist, Shereshevski ("S"), could easily repeat lists of up to ________ words after having heard or seen them only once.

Summarize the research on autobiographical memory and flashbulb memories. How accurate are these memories, who is most likely to have memories of early life experiences, and what kinds of early memories are people most likely to have?