Exam 10: Memory

According to the ________ theory of forgetting,information in memory eventually disappears if it is not accessed.

Professor Ichthyop,who specializes in the study of the Lost River sucker fish,complains that each semester whenever he learns the name of a new student,he forgets the name of a fish.He is complaining about the problem of ________ in memory.

The cerebellum is involved in the formation of procedural memories.

________ is defined as conscious,intentional recollection of an event or an item of information.

Preschoolers' memories are more vulnerable to suggestive questions than are the memories of school-aged children.

Confabulations are especially likely to occur in all the circumstances listed below EXCEPT:

Memory researchers generally agree that the parallel distributed processing model of memory is more useful than the three-box model.

Ryan,an avid football enthusiast,and his mother,who is much less familiar with the game,are watching their favourite college team attempt to score.Which of the following conclusions is most likely?

For most Canadians,the acronym RCMP consists of ________ informational chunk(s).

A relative is showing his slides again.As you watch the screen,the images that you see are stored first for a very brief time in ________ memory.

Zeke finds that he performs better on the exams that are given in his regular psychology classroom than he does in the large lecture room that is used to give midterms and finals to several sections at once.Zeke's experience illustrates the:

Memory researchers have suggested that ________ may have evolutionary significance because they were adaptive in human survival.

________ is defined as forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar,more recently stored,material.

The ________ theory of forgetting proposes that memory fades with time and lack of use.

The multiple-choice test that you are taking now requires that you ________ the relevant information.The essay test that you will take in a different class places more emphasis on your ability to ________ the relevant information.

The ________ model represents the contents of memory as connections among a huge number of interacting processing units.

Which memory system has a limited capacity and stores items for about 30 seconds?

Alexander Luria told of the journalist,S.,who could remember the exact circumstances under which he learned memory after memory.From the story of S.we can conclude that a near-perfect memory:

The formation of short-term memories and long-term memories involves the same chemical and structural changes at the level of the neurons.

The hippocampus is involved in the formation of declarative long-term memories.