Exam 6: Memory

When old information interferes with the retrieval of newer information, this is called retroactive interference.

Why is implicit memory so difficult to study?

According to the semantic network model, it would take less time to answer "true" to which sentence?

Pippa can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that her roommate just read to her over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. Her memory of things at the end of the list demonstrates the __________ effect.

For information to travel from either the iconic or echoic sensory system to short-term memory, it must first be __________ and then encoded primarily into __________ form.

The other day, you had to remember some items for an important exam. You are sure you studied them and knew them before you entered the classroom. However, you drew a blank when you took the test. What happened? Why might you not have remembered them? What might you have done to avoid this?

ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy, can disrupt consolidation and cause retrograde amnesia.

Iconic memory allows us to remember the beginnings of sentences long enough to have meaningful conversations.

The key to the partial report method of Sperling's study of sensory memory was to __________.

A psychologist asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher. Surprisingly, the majority of people correctly do this and comment, "Gee whiz, I haven't thought about that old bat [or old coot] in years!" Their ability to remember their teacher's name tends to conflict with which theory of forgetting?

Collin is asked to repeat what his mother just told him. He says he "forgot," but in reality Collin wasn't paying attention to his mother at all. This is an example of the __________ explanation of forgetting.

A mnemonist is a person with exceptional memory ability.

The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the __________.

In one study, more than 2,500 photographs were shown to participants, one every 10 seconds. Participants were then shown pairs of photographs in which one member of each pair was one of the previously seen photographs. Accuracy for identifying the previously seen photos was __________.

Which neurotransmitter is no longer readily produced in Alzheimer's patients?

What theory of forgetting attributes forgetting to the mere passage of time?

When people hear a sound, their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve, which makes it possible for the brain to interpret the sound. This process is called __________.

The practice of spacing out the study of material to be remembered by including breaks between study periods is called __________ practice.

Which famous memory researcher viewed memory as a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event, and the memory is the solution to that problem?

Students in a psychology experiment were exposed to three notes of music for a very short period of time and then asked to recall them. If the instructions to recall the notes came immediately, the students usually succeeded. If the instructions came more than 3 seconds after the notes were played, the students were much less successful. The MOST plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that, in the latter case, the echo __________.