Exam 6: Memory

Which type of long-term memory is most difficult to communicate verbally?

The tendency to recall things that are presented at the beginning of a sequence is called__________

Forgetting in long-term memory is most likely due to _____________.

Many middle-aged adults can vividly recall where they were and what they were doing the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, although they cannot remember what they were doing the day before he was assassinated. This is an example of ______.

Define infantile amnesia.

Daniel is 47 years old. He still remembers the day in first grade when his teacher announced to his class that President Kennedy had been assassinated. This is an example of__________

Which of the following statements is true about retrieval?

A patient's chart indicates he just had surgery to remove his hippocampus as a result of a tumor. What change do you anticipate in the patient after the operation?

The brain structure responsible for the formation of new long-term memories is the__________

For years, Aja prided herself in being able to recall zip codes quite well. However, in recent years, Aja has found herself unable to recall the new, extended postal codes. What is a likely explanation?

Examples of tests that use recognition are _____________ tests.

Simon is teaching his daughter, who is in the third grade, her multiplication tables. He explains to her that he memorized them when he was in fourth grade, and hasn't forgotten them since. Information like multiplication facts is stored in__________

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the __________

Long ago, during the early days of television, when a television set was turned off it took a while for the last image that was on the screen to fade away. This phenomenon is most like _____________

In anterograde amnesia, memory for anything new becomes impossible, although old memories may still be retrievable.

Short-term memory is where information is held before conscious use of the material and is unlimited in capacity.

Memories retrieved while under hypnosis are no more accurate than memories retrieved while not under hypnosis, but persons who retrieve memories under hypnosis are far more confident in the accuracy of those memories.

Encoding failure is often the reason some memories cannot be retrieved, because they were never actually encoded in the first place.

____________ is defined as an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters information as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.

This process can result in items being pushed out of short-term memory and forgotten.