Exam 8: Memory

List and define two of the seven sins of memory.

Barney used to live in Pittsburgh, and his telephone number started with the area code 412. Now he has moved to Baltimore, and his new telephone number has an area code of 410. Barney remembers his new area code by connecting it to the old one and just "subtracting two." This is an example of ________ rehearsal.

Elaborative rehearsal involves ________.

Which of the following is not a way you can use what you know about memory to help you remember the names of all 50 states?

What does the equipotentiality hypothesis suggest would happen if the hippocampus was damaged?

Explain the difference between recall, recognition, and relearning.

List the three parts of the brain involved in memory processing and explain what role they play.

Explain the difference between proactive interference and retroactive interference.

The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as ________.

Terrance finds it difficult to learn the alphabet, until he hears the alphabet song. Then he can easily remember it. This is an example of ________ encoding.

Amarah has an exam in a week, so she schedules 30 to 60 minutes each night to review her course material. She does this rather than waiting until the night before the exam so that she can avoid a "cram session." Amarah's approach to studying is called ________ practice.

What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?

The famous case of H.M. demonstrated ________ amnesia, a condition in which a person can remember previously encoded memories but cannot encode new ones.

You see a television commercial for a product you may want to buy, and there is a telephone number you must call to place an order. Because you don't have anything with which to write down the number, you repeat it to yourself over and over again until you feel like you won't forget it. This process is called ________.

What was the overall result of Lashley's research that sought out the engram of human memory?

Which of the following is a good example of the use of a mnemonic?

Elena finds it very difficult to remember a long string of numbers, so she tries to memorize three numbers at a time. Later, she is able to repeat the numbers correctly because she grouped the numbers into more manageable groups of three. This is an example of ________.

What is an engram?

What type of memories do we consciously try to remember, recall, and report?

The formulation of new memories is sometimes called ________, and the process of bringing up old memories is called ________.