Exam 6: Memory

Someone asks you to name the twenty-second president of the United States, but you can't remember. To aid your memory, the person then tells you that the president's name is the same as that of a large city on Lake Erie. Upon hearing the hint, you instantly realize that Grover Cleveland is the answer. In this situation, the hint acted as a(n) __________

The levels-of-processing model was proposed by__________

The recency effect describes the tendency to recall the last items in a sequence more readily than those in the middle.

During the bank robbery, Edna kept reminding herself that she needed to try to remember what the two criminals looked like. This process of memory was__________

Which of the following is NOT a nonsense syllable?

Short-term memory is another name for ______ memory.

Describe the methodology Herman Ebbinghaus used in his famous study of forgetting. Why did Ebbinghaus use lists of nonsense syllables as the material in his study? What was the main finding from his study?

H.M., the individual who had his hippocampal region removed as a means of reducing his epileptic seizures, lost his ability to encode new memories; however he could still form new__________

Decay theory works well to explain forgetting in _____________.

Personal facts and memories of one's personal history are parts of ___________

Which of the following types of memories would be found in episodic memory?

Linda forgot much of what happened on the day of her car accident. In that she hit her head on the steering wheel and lost consciousness for a time, a likely cause of her memory loss is__________

Which of these is an example of what has been called infantile amnesia?

When the sound of the word is the aspect that cannot be retrieved, leaving only the feeling of knowing the word without the ability to pronounce it, this is known as _________.

Name the three components of the information-processing model of memory.

If one wants to increase the capacity of short-term memory, more items can be held through the process of __________

The portion of memory that is more or less permanent is called __________

What are the two major types of rehearsal (for moving information from short-term to long-term memory)?

A man known as H. M. lost the ability to form new memories after an operation removed portions of his ____________.

Tribal peoples sometimes perform amazing memory feats, such as learning kinship lines for many generations or recognizing relatively minute differences between cows. These findings point to the importance of __________