Exam 6: Memory

If you want to hold on to information for just a minute or two, the most effective device is rote rehearsal.

Research examining the role of sleep on memory has found that the same neurons and patterns of neuronal activity in the _______ that accompany initial learning are reactivated during subsequent deep sleep.

The portion of memory that is more or less permanent and that corresponds with everything we "know" is called ________ memory.

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N. She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words "INK" and "LATE." This tactic is called ________.

Marcello thinks about what his new doctor's office will look like. He expects an exam area, a side chair, and a desk for the doctor to sit in. Marcello's image of the doctor's office is a(n) ________.

In interviewing witnesses to a bank robbery, detective Watson hears a slightly different story from each witness. Some witnesses say the robber was tall, while others maintain he was short. Some say he was wearing a black jacket, while others say it was blue. One person even said there were two robbers. The most likely explanation for these differences in the witnesses' recall is ________.

General knowledge of facts and information is stored in semantic memory.

Memory for information that cannot be intentionally retrieved from memory is called ________ memory.

An untreatable neurological disorder involving severe, progressive memory loss is called ________.

Memories of personal experience, such as what you did last Tuesday, or how you celebrated your birthday, are stored in ________.

The chemical and structural changes that occur in neurons and neural connections when memories are formed are collectively known as ________.

Briefly summarize the research and findings of Hermann Ebbinghaus regarding memory and forgetting.

Visual information is generally erased from the sensory registers in ________.

Which of the following is true of memory and culture?

The hippocampus is crucial to the functioning of ________ memory.

Which of the following statements is not true?

The two primary tasks of short-term memory are to ________.

The most accurate description of short-term memory's capacity is probably to say that it can hold ________.

The amygdala is most involved in the processing of ________ memory.

If you must study two or more subjects in the same study session, one reason to study dissimilar subjects such as literature and mathematics is that ________.