Exam 7: Memory

Brain autopsies of patients with Alzheimer's disease typically show unusual ________.

If you study in an environment that keeps you relaxed but alert, the encoding specificity principle suggests you will do best when tested if you ________.

Tomas bought a new red sports car last week; this week, he notices dozens of this same car on the road to work every day. Which of the following terms describes what Tomas is experiencing?

Ebbinghaus found that he could remember ________ of a list of nonsense syllables an hour after learning the list perfectly, ________ a day later, and ________ a week later.

According to the ________ model of memory, the more attention we pay to a stimulus and the more deeply we consider it, the better we will construct a memory trace and be able to retrieve it at a future point.

A flashbulb memory is one in which ________.

The part of the three-stage model that would be used during maintenance rehearsal is ________.

The accuracy of flashbulb memories for specific details is generally ________.

One of the leading causes of memory loss between the ages of 15 and 25 is ________.

Chidi goes to his history class and takes notes long-hand, using a pen and paper. Tahani sits in the same class, but takes her notes using a laptop computer. Chidi is more likely to have success on the upcoming exam because ________.

In the sensory memory experiment conducted by George Sperling, how many letters, on average, were people able to recall out of 12 letters?

The persistence of learning over time that is represented in the three processes of encoding, storage, and retrieval is called ________.

You can extend the duration of short-term memory through ________ and the capacity of short-term memory through ________.

Lucy glanced at the phone number displayed at her phone while she was talking to a friend but did not recognize it. When she tried later to search for it to find out who was calling her, she found she couldn't remember it. This suggests that the number was only briefly stored in her ________.

Describe the encoding, storage, and retrieval approach to memory, using a computer analogy.

Stefan is studying and needs to remember the pathway for vision, so he imagines walking into his house, noting the cornea peephole in the door, and a pupil seated in the kitchen hands him a lens as he enters the bedroom where a retinal blanket has pictures of rods and cones. This is an example of ________.

Using which of these to achieve deeper levels of processing enables you to improve long-term memory?

Which type of amnesia is rather rare but typically permanent?

When misleading information distorts our memory of a previous experience after that event occurred, which of the following has occurred?

Which expert in eyewitness testimony and false memories was deeply affected at the age of 14 years by the drowning death of her own mother?