Exam 6: Memory

The other day, you had to remember some items for an important exam. You are sure you studied them and knew them before you entered the classroom. However, you drew a blank when you took the test. What happened? Why might you not have remembered them? What might you have done to avoid this?

Personal facts and memories of one's personal history are parts of ___________.

H. M., a famous amnesiac, gave researchers solid information that the _________ was important in storing new long-term memories.

In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus, the greatest amount of forgetting occurs _________.

Iconic memory and echoic memory represent what many theorists call:

Semantic and episodic memories may be stored in the frontal and temporal lobes as well but in different locations than short-term memory.

Information is simultaneously stored across a network that stretches across the brain in the _________.

The working memory is known as the _____________ memory.

Steve was recalling his first day in college, including walking into the wrong class, dropping his books as he left, and the long line at the registrar's office he encountered when he had to switch classes. These memories are examples of:

What part of H.M.'s brain was damaged and what memory problem did this cause him?

The step in the memory process that actually makes our memories available to us is:

Janie is taking an exam in her history class. On the exam, there is a question that asks her to state and discuss the five major causes of the Trans-Caspian War (whatever that was!). Janie remembers four of them. She knows there is a fifth, but time is up. As Janie is walking down the stairs, all of a sudden, she remembers the fifth point, but it is too late. Janie had a problem with _________.

Malcolm, aged 35, is severely depressed. Because of this, he is given electroconvulsive therapy. After treatment, he is sent home and does much better. However, his TV-watching behavior is strange. Which is the most likely behavior pattern?

Iconic memory allows the eye to fuse the images from each tiny movement of the eye into a smooth, continuous pattern.

Many years ago, telephone numbers had only four or five digits. Even now, no more than seven digits are used for phone numbers. The most reasonable psychological explanation for this is that ________________.

Which of the following statements about the visual sensory memory system is false?

Connie lost her keys. She searches her memory for when she last had them, and goes to that place in the hope that it will help her remember where she misplaced them. Connie is ________ activating her _________.

Adrianna is trying to memorize the names of the bones in the hand. She had gone through a list of them when her phone rang. After she gets off the phone, she is MOST likely to remember the first few bone names because of the _________.

What is one of the real-world uses of iconic storage?

When someone looks at an image, the retina turns the light rays from it into neural messages that go up to the optic nerve so the brain can interpret them. This process is called _________.