Exam 8: Memory

Which German psychologist gathered data that is now referred to as the forgetting curve?

An essay examination is an example of a(n)__________ task.

The brain's system for filing away new information and retrieving previously learned data is called __________.

A stimulus that helps us retrieve information from memory is called a retrieval __________.

The three basic types of memory are sensory memory,working memory,and permanent memory

Students often use fancy report covers,exciting fonts,and vivid pictures on the covers of their term papers to try to impress their teacher.If their various strategies cause the teacher to have a more vivid memory of their individual paper,then they have succeeded in using __________ to influence the teacher's memory.

When it comes to the phenomenon of cued forgetting,which of the following statements is the most accurate?

Of the sins of memory that are described by Daniel Schacter,some are sins of omission,and some are sins of commission.How does he define sins of commission?

__________-dependent memory is a stored memory that is more easily retrieved when a person is in the same condition as they were when the information was first encoded.

Dr.Heritos watches with some amusement as her students struggle to find the right answers on their midterm exam,and her mind wanders to the parts of the brain that are involved in memory.As she sits in her chair proctoring the exam,which part of her brain is most active while she retrieves long-term memories?

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 __________,and the basal ganglia.

When you are asked to "clear your mind and think of nothing," this tends to be a very difficult feat to accomplish.Various images,thoughts,and "sounds" go flashing through your mind.The harder you try to think of nothing,the harder it is to think of nothing.Based on your reading of the chapter,why is "clear your mind" such a paradoxical instruction?

Which of the following are the two types of explicit memories that are discussed in your book chapter?

The levels of processing model suggests that the more attention we pay to a stimulus,the better our memory of that stimulus will be.

Which of the following are the two generally recognized forms of amnesia?

What is the relationship between long-term potentiation and memory?

__________ is the removal of a conditioned response to a stimulus by the use of habituation.

Lacrecia is having difficulty in her history class.She always attends class and writes everything down that the teacher says,but seems to have great difficulty when it comes to remembering the specifics of what was discussed in class.The fact that her friend Keli is constantly whispering to her and trying to have side conversations while class is going on may have something to do with her problem! This type of encoding interference is called __________.

Mort is going to the supermarket to pick up seven items - a toilet brush,shampoo,apples,toothpicks,baby diapers,a birthday card,and pasta.He has them written down in this order on his shopping list,but he gets to the store and finds that he's left the list at home.He finds the first few things and the last few things on his list,but for all of his effort he cannot remember that he needed toothpicks.This tendency to forget things that came in the middle of a list of items is called the __________ effect.

The way we determine which events and stimuli in our surroundings make it into our memory and which do not is by paying attention to those events that we consider important.