Exam 6: Memory

Memories concerning events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ________.

Procedural memories appear to be located primarily in the ________.

The portion of long-term memory that stores specific information of personally experienced events is called ________ memory.

Explain what eidetic imagery is and how it can be useful. Also, describe what mnemonists do and how they do it.

Remembering how to make coffee in your own coffeemaker, or how to drive a car are examples of ________ memory.

Identify and briefly describe four major types of long-term memory.

We give meaning to the raw information entering our sensory registers during the process of ________.

Current research indicates that memories consist of ________.

Each of the following is true of recovered memories except ________.

Someone asks you who the twenty-second president of the United States was and you can't remember. To aid your memory, the person then tells you that the person's name is the same as that of a large city on Lake Erie, but you still can't remember it. The person then tells you it is either John Sherman, Thomas Bayard, or Grover Cleveland. Upon hearing the names, you instantly recognize that Grover Cleveland is the answer. In this situation, the name Grover Cleveland acted as a(n) ________.