Exam 7: Memory

Which of the following observations is NOT correct?

Although information is stored in short-term memory for only about 18 seconds,this time can be extended through ____.

Which of the following encoding approaches yield better memories?

The inability to remember events that occurred before the age of 3 is known as ____.

Auditory sensory memory is referred to as ____.

A memory strategy known as ____ can greatly increase the amount of information held in short-term memory.

When you are asked to recall the name of the dog you had as a child,the information is retrieved from ____ and sent to ____.

In Ebbinghaus's memory experiment,the discovery that items near the beginning and the end of a list were more easily remembered than those in the middle is referred to as the ____.

The strengthening of synaptic transmission is known as ____.

Which of the following observations is NOT correct?

According to the information-processing model,in both computer and human memory,there are three basic processes that information goes through: an input or encoding process,a ____ process,and a retrieval process.

The human memory systems that store information for relatively brief time periods are known as ____ and short-term memory.

Craik and Lockhart's theory of elaborative rehearsal states that ____ processing typically involves encoding information in terms of its superficial perceptual qualities.

Who is associated with memory studies involving serial-position effect?

When a new memory is formed,changes take place in specific neurons,creating a kind of ____.

Studies of brain-injured patients and neuroimaging studies of healthy individuals suggest that both episodic and semantic memories involve the activation of the ____.

When you recall what your home from childhood looked like,this cognitive task relies on the ____.

According to Craik and Lockhart,information processed at a shallow level can be retained only briefly in what is conventionally called ____.

Black-capped chickadees can stockpile an incredible amount of food during the winter in many different locations,and later successfully retrieve it.Anatomical studies indicate that these birds have a much larger ____ than birds that do not stockpile food

George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to ____ items or chunks of information (plus or minus two).