Exam 8: Memory

If you are taking an exam and you have the nagging sense that you know the answer to a question only to later find out that you never knew it,you have been a victim of pseudoforgetting.

The __________ is a part of the brain involved in processing explicit memories,recognizing and recalling long-term memories,and conditioning.

One way that implicit memories can be formed is through __________,which occurs when an association is made between two different stimuli.

"I'll never forget the day my daughter was born," Said Lakia's mother."I remember the people who were there,what they were wearing,how I felt,and the joy of seeing her for the first time!" Clearly,the birth of her daughter was a __________ to Lakia's mother.

How many different kinds of sensory registers does each person have?

The process of directing your attention to a specific stimulus and then converting that stimulus to a form that can be stored is called __________.

__________ is the process of activating associations in memory just before starting a certain task.

What is another name for "working memory?"

The information-processing model of memory was first proposed by which researchers?

After her car accident,Mollie had no memory of the party she'd been to in the hours before she suffered a head injury.She has no difficulties,however,encoding and storing new information.Mollie is suffering from __________ amnesia.

Charles is trying to learn a concept in his advanced music theory class.He wants to remember the orders of sharps and flats in the different key signatures of music.He knows that the sharps go F-B-E-A-D-G-C and the flats go G-D-A-E-B-F-C,but he's unable to keep the order correct in his head.One evening,he decides to take the letters and make a sentence.For sharps he creates "Fat Boys Eat Apple Dumplings Girls Cook," and for flats he uses "God Destroyed All Earth By Flood,Cool!" In order to remember his sharps and flats,Charles has employed a __________ device.

When you are given a list of stimuli to remember,you are going to have a particularly easy time remembering the first two or three things on that list.This is an example of the __________ effect.

There are two kinds of interference that can cause us to forget information - hypoactive interference and hyperactive interference.

If My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas,then I am probably familiar with the use of __________.

Which lobe of the cerebrum plays a prominent role in the encoding and storage of working and long-term memory?

According to the research of Hermann Ebbinghaus,if you haven't forgotten something after ______ days,you are likely to remember it after 30 days as well.

While trying to decide what to do on their first date,Jevon and Jennifer were throwing out ideas.Jevon said "Why don't we go play pool and have a few beers?" Jennifer smiled at the decidedly masculine tone of that idea,and said,"I don't really know how to play pool!" If Jennifer were speaking in the language of memory theory,she might have said "I don't have the __________ memory of how to do that activity."

Your iconic memory is the brief memory of things that you have heard.

Which type of encoding tends to lead to the longest amount of retention?

Most people are very aware of the date of their own birth,and as that date approaches they eagerly anticipate gifts,cake,and perhaps a party.Because people are aware that they remember their own birthdays,this is an example of a(n)__________ memory.