Exam 6: Memory

The content of earliest autobiographical memories for Taiwanese and Chinese college students tended to concern discrete events and personal emotions they evoked.

Imagining some event in the past as different from the way it actually occurred can help you enhance the accuracy of that particular memory.

If information in short-term memory is not actively rehearsed,the information is transferred to long-term memory.

Long-term memory storage capacity seems to be limitless.

After living in Canada for many years, Shu Fang returned fora visit to Seoul, Korea. As she walked through then eighborhood in which she had grown up, her mind was flooded with memories of her childhood. The environment alcues that helped trigger Shu Fang's memories illustrate:

A process called long-term potentiation strengthens the connections among neurons in a particular memory circuit,allowing them to communicate more easily.

Visual sensory memory only lasts for about half a second while auditory sensory memory lasts for a few seconds.

Working memory:

Neuroscientist Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize for his discovery that diseased neurons in the hippocampus are the cause of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease and other formsof dementia.

After many years of research, Karl Lashley concluded that memories were distributed throughout the brain rather than stored in a particular area.

Sperling's classic experiment in which he briefly flashed three rows of letters on a screen immediately followed by a tone demonstrated that:

Explaining new material that you are learning out loud toothers is an effective way to improve your memory of the material.

According to the working memory model developed by British psychologist Alan Baddeley, the _____ is to verbal material asthe _____ is to visual or spatial material.

"Cramming," or _____, is less effective at boosting memory than _____.

"Can you believe it? Another cellphone, and this one looks expensive!" the cosmetics salesperson laughed as she waved the cell phone that the customer had left behind. "Well, put itin the drawer with the others," her co-worker said. "They'll probably come back for this one." Such everyday instances of absentmindedness are usually caused by:

Researchers hypothesized that cultural differences in the characteristics of earliest autobiographical memories might berelated to cultural differences in:

Déjà vu experiences are typically triggered by a visual scene,but can involve all of the senses.

In the study in which participants were asked to recall details about the psychology professor's office, many participants erroneously remembered objects that were not in the office but that did fit their schema of a typical professor's office.

After being presented with a list of thirty random words,Jennifer was asked to recall as many words as she could. Inrecalling the words, Jennifer remembered groups of related words, such as harp, flute, and piano. Jennifer's pattern of answers during recall demonstrates:

As Erin watched the small airplane start its engine, she couldsee the trailing, fading images of the propeller twirling. This isan example of visual sensory memory.