Exam 6: Retrieving Memories From Long-Term Storage

Which of the following is a feature of retrograde amnesia?

It is better to study material for 20 minutes per night for 3 nights than it is to study for 1 full hour the night before the test.

The case of H.M.suggests that damage to the ______ may result in anterograde amnesia.

Forgetting curves can demonstrate ______.

Because of the way they are coded in long-term memory,you are most likely to confuse pieces of information that are ______ similar.

Based on principles of encoding specificity,which of the following contexts has been shown to increase retrieval if it matches the encoding state?

A retrieval cue will be effective if and only if it reinstates the context of the to-be-remembered event,according to the principle of ______.

Short-term memory can be described as having ______ capacity and long-term memory can be described as having ______ capacity.

The levels of processing approach generally uses an incidental learning task because ______.

Korsakoff's syndrome involves ______.

Schacter (1996)reports a case of a woman with frontal temporal lobe damage due to encephalitis.She appears to have damaged ______ memory.

Studies of amnesia provide evidence that ______.

Describe one mnemonic device and give an example of how it might be used.

Which of the following are most likely to be confused in long-term memory?

The facts that you have encoded for this exam would be found in procedural memory.

Which of the following may explain the testing effect noted by Roediger and others?

Repetition priming is often used in the laboratory to demonstrate ______ memory.

Roediger's work on the testing effect tells us that taking tests ______.

Declarative memory is analagous to ______ memory,while procedural memory is analagous to ______ memory.

Your memory for the fact that Ebbinghaus studied forgetting is an example of ______ memory.