Exam 6: Memory

Sitting in a very noisy restaurant, you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing. This is an example of _________.

Evidence suggests that nondeclarative memories are stored in the cerebellum, whereas short-term memories are stored in the prefrontal and temporal lobes of the cortex.

Which of the following statements concerned with sensory memory is true?

One task useful in testing short-term memory capacity is the digit-span test.

When Rip Van Winkle returns to his native village, after 20 years of sleeping in the mountains, he goes immediately to the location of his former house and asks for his wife and children by name. The kind of memory that he is exhibiting is _______.

ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy, can disrupt consolidation and cause retrograde amnesia.

The auditory equivalent of the icon is the ____________.

The hippocampus appears to be responsible for the storage of new long-term memories. If it is removed, the ability to store anything new is completely lost.

"Old information inhibits one's ability to remember newer information" defines _________.

For which famous memory researcher is memory a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event, and the memory is the solution to that problem?

When old information interferes with the retrieval of newer information, this is called retroactive interference.

One feature of the Atkinson and Shiffrin model of memory is that:

In what way are sensory memory and long-term memory similar?

If the most recent theories regarding the capacity of short-term memory are correct, then _____________.

Proactive interference of long-term memory means ___________ .

Hermann Ebbinghaus found that memory is best immediately after we learn information, and we gradually forget more as time passes. What name is given to this observation?

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the _________.

You are out for a drive with the family and are lucky enough to get a window seat. The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in _________.

Unprocessed stimulation from the environment is first held in:

Godden and Baddeley found that if you study on land, you do better when tested on land, and if you study underwater, you do better when tested underwater. This finding is an example of _________.