Exam 8: Memory

According to the neural network model of memory,if a small portion of your brain is removed for medical reasons,your memory might:

Consider the following two lists of words: List 1)man,mad,cap,can,map.List 2)big,huge,broad,long,tall.When presented with these two lists,research indicates that people usually have more difficulty accurately remembering List 1,which suggests that an important role in short-term memory is played by ____________ encoding.

The increasing synaptic strength so that synaptic connections are activated more easily is known as ___________.

The iconic store and echoic store are subsystems that are important parts of:

According to the three-stage model of memory,the primacy effect is due to the transfer of words into long-term memory,and the ______________ is due to short-term memory.

Words at the end of a list are typically remembered better than words presented in the middle.This is known as the recency effect and it presumably happens because the last few words on the list remain in __________ memory.

An eyewitness from a crime is asked to look through some mugshots to see if he can identify the person who committed the crime.After doing this,he sees a police lineup of suspects and identifies one of the men as the person who committed the crime because he looks very familiar.Unfortunately,the man in the lineup looks familiar not because the eyewitness saw him commit the crime,but because he saw his face in the mugshot books a few hours ago and the eyewitness has forgotten this.This example best demonstrates the phenomenon of:

Research has found that self-generating many retrieval cues facilitates memory.It is assumed that this type of processing facilitates encoding by:

Which of the following best illustrates how problems with encoding can contribute to forgetting?

If you were to perform a mental computation such as adding the numbers 26 and 41 in your head,it is assumed that you would be doing this in your:

It is believed that chunking enhances memory by:

Which of the following was mentioned as a suggestion for improving memory?

When people learn lists of words and are tested for recall at two different times,sometimes they recall more material during the second testing.This phenomenon is known as reminiscence,and it is most incompatible with:

The distortion of a memory by misleading post-event data or facts is known as:

The term boundary extension refers to our tendency to remember scenes as being more expansive than they actually are.It is thought that this occurs because of ______________.

The recency effect appears to be due to the early transfer of information into long-term memory.

Individual items to be recalled are grouped into larger units of meaning in a memory process called:

The _____________ component of working memory allows us to temporarily store and manipulate mental images.

As is the case with the H.M. ,damage to this region of the brain can permanently limit a person's ability to form new declarative memories.This region is the _______________.

A person uses the word "HOMES" to remember the names of the Great Lakes (Huron,Ontario,Michigan,Erie,and Superior).This memory enhancing technique is best viewed as an example of: