Exam 7: Memory

Which type of forgetting occurs when memory traces weaken because these memories have not been periodically utilized or retrieved?

A mail clerk has to rearrange mailboxes in a student dormitory and for a few days has difficulty sorting the mail. This illustrates

Clive cannot remember if you had been in his room just 15 minutes earlier and had a conversation with him. Although Clive is able to carry on a normal conversation with you, he cannot make the transfer from short-term to long-term memory. Clive must have damage to his

Procedural, semantic, and episodic memories are types of __________ memory.

Before new incoming information can be stored, it must be first be

You worked for 10 years after high school and have now decided to go back to college. One of the courses you will be taking first semester is World Civilization. You had World History when you were in tenth grade. However, as you go through your college history class, you realize that you are learning this material very quickly because you must have retained memories from your high school history class. This story illustrates

In order to briefly remember a shopping list, you silently say the items on the list over and over to yourself. You are able to maintain these items in your short-term memory through

Minnie has severe depression that has not been alleviated by medication. She is administered electroconvulsive therapy. We can expect Minnie to suffer a memory loss for events happening right before the electroconvulsive shock (ECS)was administered. Her memory loss is due to which of the following being disrupted by the ECS?

Organizing and summarizing material to be remembered works because it

Selective attention determines what information moves from sensory memory into short-term memory.

Patterns of blood flow within the brain show that the back areas of the cortex are associated more with __________ memories.

Which type of memories is revealed through the use of priming?

If a memory is particularly emotional, as are many flashbulb memories, the process of consolidation is intensified by heightened activity in the

Forgetting events that occurred just before a head injury would be an example of

Jamilla is learning her lines for the play. First, she learns half of scene one. Once it is mastered, she studies the second half of scene one. She then goes back and recites her lines for all of scene one. Once this is mastered, Jamilla starts learning the first half of scene two and so on, always starting at the beginning of the play, once she has mastered each small part. After the whole play is learned, Jamilla also practices by starting at different points in the play. This will help prevent getting "lost" or going blank in the middle of the performance. To learn her lines for the play, Jamilla is using

The ability to predict beforehand whether one will be able to remember something is called

Explain the space and time capacities of short-term memory, the effects of chunking and maintenance rehearsal on these capacities, and the best method for moving information from short-term into long-term memory.

State-dependent learning is a term which refers to the fact that

Which of the following is an example of forgetting due to a retrieval problem?

If a new experience triggers vague memories of a past experience, without yielding any details, you will experience a type of partial memory known as déjà vu.