Exam 8: Memory

Yesterday, Colleen went to an interesting lecture on relationship problems. She didn't take notes, because she isn't going to be tested on the lecture. Though she made no effort to memorize any of the information the speaker presented, she is able to repeat a great deal of it to a friend. In particular, she is able to remember the parts that she felt applied to her own past relationships. Which concept explains why?

Solada had to park on the far end of the lot this morning, so she walked by dozens of cars on her way to class. Later, she learns that a student's car was stolen from the same lot soon after she walked through. Though she tries, she can't remember a car that meets the description of the stolen car. This is most likely due to

The original three-stage model of memory assumed that short-term memory was similar to a loading platform, but modern theorists have argued that the human memory system is analogous to a __________.

As is the case with the H.M., damage to this region of the brain can permanently limit a person's ability to form new declarative memories. This region is the _______________.

Explain the concept of "depth of processing."

The capacity of _____________ memory appears to be unlimited.

Professor Anderson is conducting a memory study. Participants learn a word list and then they have to wait 30 seconds before trying to recall the list. During the 30 seconds, participants have to count backwards by three's. What is she researching?

When my aged mother sees old pictures, she adds a lot of information that is not "seen" or obvious in the pictures. My mother is displaying a phenomenon known as __________.

In a classic fear conditioning paradigm, during which a neutral blue square is paired with an aversive shock to the wrist, patients with __________ damage fail to show a normal physiological fear response to the blue square, even though they are able to report that the blue square predicted the shock

My granny tells me how life was when she was younger. When she narrates personal incidents from decades ago, she is using her __________ memory.

Retrieval is a process of ____________.

Another name for short-term memory is working memory.

When learning math tables for a test the following day, a student repeats the tables to themselves, applying a process known as __________.

Professor Pavio studies working memory. His research is likely to focus on any of the following EXCEPT the

A patient of yours has some memory problems. But the problems are very specific-- he can not seem to encode or decode emotional memories. You suspect that there may be damage to the

If you had to remember a series of words, which of the following techniques would be the best?

Shopping lists and appointment calendars are considered to fall into which category of memory enhancement strategies?

The capacity of ____________ memory is generally agreed to be about five to nine meaningful pieces of information.

Kandel's research on learning in the sea slug, aplysia, allowed him and his colleagues to study

Storage is a process of ____________.