Exam 6: Memory

There are two types of explicit memory,_____ memory,which is for facts and knowledge,and _____ memory for personally experienced events.

_____ encoding is the process of relating new information in a meaningful way to knowledge that is already stored in memory.

If presented with similar but misleading information about an event during participants' recollection of the event,participants are then more likely to incorporate the misleading information into their future accounts of the event.This is probably due to the fact that the misleading information was presented closely in time with the _____ of the event.

The process whereby memories can become vulnerable to disruption when they are recalled,thus requiring them to be consolidated again is termed:

The persistence of intrusive memories,such as flashbulb memories,is often a result of:

Michelle,whose first language is Spanish,is currently learning French in university.When she goes to see her Spanish-speaking grandmother,she inserts French words into her Spanish.Michelle is experiencing:

Roger is using rehearsal to remember a telephone number.Each time he repeats the numbers,he is "reentering" the information into his short-term memory,thus adding about _____ to the shelf life.

Patrick witnesses a burglary.He is asked by the police to identify the burglar from a lineup of suspects.Patrick gets confused and points at the wrong man because he had seen him in the same place at a different time.This scenario illustrates:

Sensory information is kept for a few seconds or less in:

Anthony is given a list of 20 objects to memorize in order.Anthony imagines a walk from home to school and pictures one of the objects on each street corner.Which memory technique is Anthony MOST likely using?

Iconic memories usually decay in about _____ or less.

The process by which we transform what we perceive,think,or feel into an enduring memory is called:

Chad suffered brain damage to his hippocampus after a bike accident.He can no longer remember things that happened after his injury.Chad MOST likely has:

Divided attention is associated with an increase in lower-left frontal lobe activity.

The enhanced ability to think about a word or object due to a recent exposure to that same word or object is called:

Making a new memory is MOST analogous to:

Rachel was asked the following questions: "What is the biggest celebration you have ever attended?" and "When does Labour Day occur?" Rachel answered that the biggest celebration she had ever attended was her brother's bar mitzvah and that Labour Day was the first Monday in September.Her answers to both questions were part of her _____ memory.

The fast-decaying store of visual information that is forgotten in seconds if not attended to is known as _____ memory.

Jared just completed a course in Chinese history.Based on knowledge about the curve of forgetting,we can predict that:

Long-term potentiation occurs in the hippocampus.