Exam 8: Memory

If you try to remember the lobes of the cortex by associating each one with a location in your house, you would be using the ____________.

Use the concepts of declarative versus procedural memory, and explicit versus implicit memory, to explain the pattern of H.M.'s amnesia.

Any external or internal stimulus that triggers the activation of information stored in long-term memory is a _________________.

A student includes some outdoor games when packing for a picnic to a park. The student is using __________ of/for a picnic when doing so.

Because long-term memory's capacity is so large, we must organize the concepts or "files" we keep there. Our mental network or filing system of associated ideas and concepts is called

Flashbulb memories are often _____________ and research has shown that they are frequently _________________.

George Sperling attempted to assess the duration of iconic memory by ____________.

Declarative memory is to ________________ as procedural memory is to _____________.

A patient is in their late sixties, and is gradually becoming more forgetful, confused, disoriented, and makes poor judgments. MOST likely, This patient is likely is suffering from __________.

Describe some ways to measure explicit and implicit memory.

According to the _____________ theory we forget information because other items in long-term memory impair our ability to retrieve it.

Try as she might, Zoey cannot remember anything from the first three years of her childhood. Which of the following is NOT considered a possible explanation for infantile amnesia?

Eva rides the bus to and from work each day. Tonight, she needs to stop by the market, so she associates each grocery item on her list with a different bus stop. As she walks through the store, she imagines she is riding the bus. At each stop, she picks up one of the items on her list. Eva is using (the)

Your friend Paulo was in a car crash and when you asked him what happened he could not remember anything at all about the crash. Rather than amnesia, Paulo could be displaying

The theory which proposes that forgetting is a result of physical memory traces fading away over time from disuse is the _____________.

Modern cognitive scientists refer to short-term memory as "working" memory because they believe that it functions similar to a(n)

From the perspective of associative networks, your ability to think of the colour orange is likely associated with ____________.

The three broad categories of memory enhancement techniques are

Which of the following would be the best example of semantic memory?

Jennifer and Jeff are studying for their anatomy exam. Jeff is learning the cranial nerves by repeating them over and over. Jennifer is using a mnemonic device to remember them in the proper order. While Jeff is repeating "I. Olfactory II. Optic III. Oculomotor IV. Trochlear V. Trigeminal VI. Abducens VII. Facial VIII. Auditory (Vestibulocochlear) IX. Glossopharyngeal X. Vagus XI. Spinal Accessory XII. Hypoglossal," Jennifer is saying "Onward Old Orcs Toward The Argonath For A Great Villain, Slay Hobbits," because she knows that will help her by using the first letter of each word to keep the nerves in the right order. If the levels-of-processing theory is correct,