Exam 6: Memory

In a cross-cultural study investigating first memories,European American college students usually reported first memories that were self-focused and revolved around a specific event or experience.

In his pioneering studies of forgetting, Ebbinghaus was the first researcher to demonstrate how the misinformation effect,source confusion, and imagination inflation all contribute to imperfect memories.

The average age for the earliest autobiographical memories reported by European American college students tended to be_____, compared to those reported by Chinese and Taiwanese college students.

A great deal of information is held during the sensory memory stage, but only for a couple of seconds at the longest.

Forgetting the true source of a memory, or attributing amemory to the wrong source, is called source confusion.

The temporal lobes and the frontal lobes are involved incomplex auto biographical memories.

Memory for the sequence of events is processed by the prefrontal cortex.

Not every researcher accepts that short-term memory is limited to exactly seven items, plus or minus two. Recent research suggests that the true "magical number" is more likely to be:

As James watched Haley wave the 4th of July sparkler backand forth, he noticed that the sparkler seemed to produce atrailing after image that faded within a split second. Whichtype of sensory memory can account for the quickly fading after image of the sparkler?

H.M. retained a limited ability to form new semantic memories.

Organizing items into related groups during recall from long-term memory is called "clustering."

You will remember new material better if you actively think about the material, make associations to your own experiences, and come up with new examples of your own.

Forming new memories involves increasing the amount of neurotransmitters produced by the neurons in the memory circuit but not the number of synaptic connections.

According to George Miller, the capacity of short-termmemory is:

Adam vividly remembers the accident that sent him to the emergency room for stitches. This is an example of which type of long-term memory?

Although she had not made one in years, Evelyn carefully folded the paper to make a paper airplane for her grandson.Evelyn's ability to perform this task is an example of which type of long-term memory?

Richard Thompson discovered that the memory trace of a simple conditioned reflex in a rabbit was, as Lashley hadconcluded, distributed throughout the brain.

Chloe could not remember the name of the husband of a very important client. So, Chloe began reciting the alphabet until aletter triggered her memory, and she could remember the name. The letter of the alphabet:

Because she didn't have a piece of paper handy, Mary mentally repeated the long-distance phone number over andover. Mary was trying to keep the information in:

"Mood congruence" refers to the finding that when people are in a depressed mood, they are more likely to recall happy memories.