Exam 6: Memory

Describe non-declarative and declarative memory and its subsystems (semantic and episodic memory). Provide examples of each and briefly explain what is known about the areas of the brain most heavily involved in these two major types of memory.

Some studies show that about ________ percent of children apparently have something akin to photographic memory, which psychologists call eidetic.

Which of the following is not a recommendation from the textbook about how to conduct interviews with children?

What is the memory that is not a replica of an event, but one that has been pieced together from a few highlights and uses information that may or may not be accurate?

Judith studied for her final exams in the calming environment of the park next to her college. On the day of each exam, she would take a walk through the park, just before going into the school to write the exam. Judith was trying to apply what she had learned about

The emotion that appears to affect memory most is

When Bartlett studied memory using rich and meaningful events presented in lifelike scenarios, he found that

Overlearning makes material more resistant to interference.

Who invented the nonsense syllable, conceived the relearning method for testing retention, and plotted the curve of forgetting?

When on the witness stand, Wally is asked to relate the events as they happened on the morning of the crime. For this task, which of the following types of recall is required?

What is the serial position effect?

Implicit memory consists of motor skills, habits, and simple classically conditioned responses.

Which of the following is most like what is called photographic memory?

The process of consolidation occurs when encoded memories are stored and some physical change occurs in the brain.

List four of the causes of forgetting and give a definition and an example of each.

Which of the following types of memory is what most people refer to when they use the term "memory," because it is the system that allows retention of vast amounts of information for an extended period?

All of the following are examples of motivated forgetting, except

Being able to recite a number of nursery rhymes from childhood is probably due mainly to

Which of the following refers to the vivid images people have of what they were doing at the time we first learned of some dramatic event, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the events of September 11, 2001?

Which of the following memory processes refers to the way in which information is entered into memory?