Exam 8: Memory

The proper route that you need to drive to get from New York to Los Angeles is a(n)__________ memory.Remembering the time that you and three friends made that drive in a week is a(n)__________ memory.

Which part of the brain is most likely to be injured in a person suffering from anterograde amnesia?

The process of retrieving a stored memory in the absence of an external stimulus is called __________.

Research has found that the _________ becomes activated during challenging working-memory tasks.

The parts of the brain that help us receive and encode information from the five sensory systems are called the sensory registers.

A __________ is a memory aid that gives rhyme and reason to lists or other pieces of information.

The average duration of iconic memory is ____ second(s),while the average duration of echoic memory is ___ second(s).

When you are given a list of items to remember,you will probably have little difficulty remembering what came at the end of the list.This is known as the __________ effect.

The __________ memory is a type of sensory memory that involves visual stimuli.

Which cognitive process allows us to determine which of the many sensations around us we are going to store in memory and which of those data we are going to discard?

The serial position effect is basically the combination of the primacy and recency effects.

Which of the following is an example of a semantic memory?

While explicit and implicit long-term memories might not feel any different to the individual,they are processed in different areas of the brain.The __________ is largely responsible for the processing of explicit memories.

The process of encoding,storage,and retrieval is known as the __________-processing model of memory.

While explicit memories are handled primarily by the hippocampus,implicit memories play large roles in the formation and storage of implicit long-term memories the hippocampus,the cerebellum,and the __________.

"The process of memory is like using one of those "Storage USA" businesses," Prof.Fisher tells her class."You have a place to keep your stuff,but the three main processes have to work or else you're just wasting your money.__________ is like putting stuff into the locker you rented,storage is keeping it safe there over time,and retrieval is taking it out later on when you need it."

The __________ effect is the ability to recall the information that was last stored when given a list of things to remember.

Mr.Shannon,the high school choir director,made sure that two weeks before the holiday concert in December he moved the rehearsals into the auditorium where the performance would be held.He wanted the students in his choir to associate what they would have to do with the surroundings where they would have to remember it! Mr.Shannon,obviously well-versed in psychology,is using the __________ effect to help the performance go smoothly.

Paul has planned to study tonight for tomorrow's physics exam.He wants to be as fully-prepared as possible.The problem,though,is that he got into a fight with his girlfriend,and now is angry and irritated as he sits trying to study.If Paul wants to do well on tomorrow's test,what mood should he be in when the test is administered?

If you see a bolt of lightning flash across the sky,you will have a visual memory of that stimulus for a brief second after it occurs.This sort of memory is called __________,which refers to our visual sensory memory.