Exam 6: Memory

Eric Kandel's research with the sea snail Aplysia demonstrated that memory formation involves functional and structural changes in neurons.

The "tip-of-the-fingers" phenomenon might occur when a person using American Sign Language has difficulty remembering a particular word needed in conversation, and can remember only the:

"Cramming" is highly recommended to enhance long-termretention of new information.

Memory consolidation occurs during REM sleep but not non-REM sleep.

Research has consistently shown that, like photographs,flashbulb memories are unaffected by the passage of time.Thus, they tend to be highly accurate.

Research has shown that the bits and pieces of information that people usually recall during a tip-of-the-tongue experience are completely unrelated to the blocked memory.

The experience of déjà vu is a sign of extrasensory perceptionor clairvoyance.

In a research study on false memories, psychologist Stephen Lindsay showed half the participants their actual first-gradeclass photo, like the one shown here, and asked them to read adescription of a prank that supposedly happened in firstgrade. What was the effect of looking at the photo?

British psychologist and memory researcher Alan Baddeley developed the best-known model of working memory, which has three components, the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, and the central executive.

Maintenance rehearsal is a very effective strategy for encoding information into long-term memory.

Professor Sheehan spent most of the class session lecturing on different aspects of memory, and ended by reminding her students of the test at the next class session. After her students had shuffled out of the classroom, Professor Sheehan noticed astudent's cellphone on a desk toward the back of the classroom. The student forgetting his cellphone is an everyday example of _____ that is most probably due to _____.

Although research has plainly shown that so-called "flashbulbmemories" function in the same way as ordinary memories,people tend to be very confident that their flashbulb memories are highly accurate memories of the details of the particular event.

There is no evidence for a specific memory function localized to one area of the brain.

Suppression is motivated forgetting that occurs unconsciously and involves a memory that is blocked and unavailable to consciousness.

The fMRI study described in the Focus on Neuroscience,"Assembling Memories," showed that retrieving a sensorymemory reactivates the same sensory area of the cortex that was involved in the initial perception of the event.

The Enhancing Well-Being with Psychology section provides several techniques and suggestions to enhance your memory of information. Which of the following is one of those suggestions?

"No, wait, 7449 is my old extension! I just can't remember my new extension. Hold on, I've got it written on the back of my business cards," Nathan explained as he fumbled with his wallet, looking for the business card. Nathan is experiencing proactive interference.

Consider this sentence: "Sean was able to get the dog to come out from under the abandoned house by shaking a bag of dogfood." In order for you to consciously make sense out of the sentence, the information was processed in your:

Mike began studying for his exam the night before the test,reading his textbook chapter for the first time. Ebbinghaus would predict that:

Brenda's Aunt Shelby got to the point where she just couldn'trecall any more details. "Honestly, that's all I can remember about being in the same first-grade class as Bruce Springsteen.It was just too long ago," Shelby explained to her disappointed niece. That Shelby was unable to recall her other long-termmemories about attending elementary school with Bruce Springsteen is most likely an example of: