Exam 6: Memory

Brenda Milner and Suzanne Corkin are the psychologists who studied Henry Molaison (H.M.) extensively over the last 50years.

Applying information to yourself, the self-reference effect,improves your memory for information.

Whenever Carlos reaches for the silverware, he keeps reaching for the drawer that used to contain the silverware.Carlos's failure to remember the new location of the silverware is probably due to:

Compared to Chinese and Taiwanese college students, earliest autobiographical memories for European American students tended to concern _____ events.

While Aaron was waiting for a prescription to be filled, he called Kate to see if she wanted him to pick up anything while he was at the grocery store. To his surprise, Kate rattled offten different items she wanted him to buy. Aaron forgot two items in the middle of the list. Aaron's pattern of forgetting illustrates:

Clustering is one way of increasing the storage capacity and duration of short-term memory.

When Travis got to his 9 o'clock math class, another student asked Travis what had been discussed in the 8 o'clock history class. Travis was able to answer because the information was stored in his long-term memory.

As she was reading the suggestions in the textbook on how to improve memory, Tanika thought of different ways she could apply the suggestions to herself. By applying the information to herself, Tanika was using _____ to help her encode and remember the information.

One of the key factors that contributes to "imaginationinflation" is that repeatedly imagining an event makes the event seem increasingly familiar.

On a visit to his mother's home, Steve's mother introduced him to her new next-door neighbor. After chatting with the neighbor for a few minutes, Steve realized that he could not remember the new neighbor's name. The MOST likely explanation for Steve's forgetting the neighbor's name is:

What is the "lost-in-the-mall" technique?

The tip-of-the-tongue experience is a common example of retrieval cue failure.

Implicit memory is to _____ as explicit memory is to _____.

The active, working memory system that holds all of the information that you are currently thinking about is called short-term memory.

Emotional aspects of memory are processed by the amygdala.

The "phonological loop," "visuospatial sketchpad," and"central executive" are:

In telling the detective everything she could recall about what happened when she went into the bank to make a deposit,Lynn got to the point that she could not recall any more details. At that point, Lynn was probably experiencing:

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

When the conditions of information retrieval are similar to the conditions of information encoding, memory retrieval is more likely to be successful. This statement reflects the basic idea of:

"My first memory? I can remember when I was almost three years old and going to my mom's hospital room just after mylittle brother was born. My aunt handed me my little brother all wrapped in a blanket and I remember just looking at himfor the longest time, and thinking how he was so little."According to the research discussed in the Culture and Human Behavior box, memories like this one that focus on a specific event and the person's feelings about the event were most likely to be: