Exam 8: Memory

The __________ describes a person's ability to better retrieve information when in the same situation in which the information was first encoded.

The inability to retrieve information that has been previously stored is called __________.

A procedural memory,which is the memory of habits and skills that we perform,is one type of __________ memory.

It is not possible for anything to make it into our memory unless we consciously choose to retain that bit of information.

Which of the following types of information will be the easiest for us to encode and remember?

The fact that the __________ is active and alert while we sleep gives evidence that our dreams do,in fact,draw from our own life experiences.

Remembering your trip to the Grand Canyon last summer is an example of an episodic memory.

In the movie "The Chosen," based on the book by Chaim Potok,one of the main characters,Danny,is able to recite verbatim an entire newspaper article from memory after looking at it for fewer than 10 seconds.This is an example of __________ memory.

The attorneys were engaged in a very difficult struggle to convince the jury that their respective client deserved to win the case.One attorney went too far,and the judge stated,"The members of the jury will disregard the statement that was just made by plaintiff's attorney." The judge is attempting to use the process of __________ to eliminate the inappropriate information from the jury's eventual deliberations.

__________ is the process of organizing large pieces of information into smaller pieces or groups.

Dr.McCaffery tells his class,"I am going to shine a stimulus up on the screen,and I'm only going to give you three seconds to memorize them.Go!" He shines a slide that has the following letters - "HBOIBMUSALOL" - on the screen.The student who wants to win the game by memorizing this most effective and most quickly will use what process to remember the 12 letters as "HBO - IBM - USA - LOL?"

If you are given a list of information to remember,your memory of the items at/in the __________ of the list is going to be the worst.

__________ processing is to structure or sound as __________ processing is to meaning.

The frontal lobe plays a prominent role in the encoding and storage of working and long-term memory.

A(n)__________ memory is one that is immediately stored in long-term memory and is caused by emotional events.

Which of the following is one of the basic types of memory?

__________ forgetting is a type of forgetting in which a person is specifically told to forget about certain information.

According to Schacter,there are three sins of forgetting,three sins of distortion,and one sin of intrusion that collectively make up the "seven sins of memory."

__________ rehearsal is the process of repeating information,either out loud or silently,with the intent of learning that information.

The three key processes of memory are