Exam 6: Memory

You are introduced to someone at a party. While talking with the person, you realize that you have already forgotten the person's name. What amount of time does it typically take before such information is lost from short-term memory?

Infant memories are mostly implicit and therefore difficult to bring into conscious awareness. When children become more verbal, their explicit memories become more dominant.

The concept of a house would be stored in __________ memory.

Taye is trying to buy something over the phone. He asks his partner to read him his credit card number. However, when he tries to repeat it to the salesclerk on the other end of the line, he can't remember all the numbers. Taye is coming up against __________.

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

Iconic and echoic memory are types of __________ memory.

Memory is __________.

Josh still has very vivid memories of his first romantic kiss. This example illustrates a specific form of __________ memory known as a(n) __________ memory.

__________ rehearsal results in a more lasting memory and promotes the transfer of information to long-term memory, as compared to __________ rehearsal.

Flashbulb memories __________.

A man known as H. M. lost the ability to form new memories after an operation removed portions of his __________.

The semantic network model of memory suggests that the __________ nodes you must pass through to access information, the longer it will take for you to recall information.

Which type of memory allows us to have meaningful conversations?

Iconic memory is the visual sensory memory, in which an afterimage or icon will be held in neural form for about 1 to 2 seconds.

The breakdown of __________ seems to be responsible for the impaired ability to form new memories.

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information, this is called proactive interference.

If the most recent theories regarding the capacity of short-term memory are correct, then five sentences __________.

Memory for fear of objects is most likely stored in the cerebellum.

Jaclynn had written a grocery list but accidentally left it at home. Trying to remember the list, Jaclynn remembers what was at the beginning of the list and what was at the end but not those things in the middle. This is an example of __________.

Episodic memory consists of personal facts and memories of one's personal history.