Exam 7: Memory

In sensory memory, the approximate duration of a visual image is about _____, and the approximate duration of auditory echoic memory is up to _____.

The encoding specificity principle says that information retrieval is improved when _____.

A retrieval failure that involves a sensation of knowing something, but being temporarily unable to retrieve, it is called _____.

Which of the following are ways that people can improve their elaborative rehearsal skills?

Describe the three storage systems in the traditional model of memory, and explain how the purpose, duration, and capacity of each system differ. Illustrate your answer with an example of how each system contributed to a specific memory from your recent past.

To remember the pathway for vision you imagine yourself walking into your house, noting the cornea peephole in the front door, the entryway fishbowl full of aqueous humor, and a pupil seated in your living room handing you a lens as you enter the dining room where glasses filled with vitreous humor rest on a retinal tablecloth with pictures of rods and cones. This is an example of _____.

_____ memories are related to anxiety-provoking thoughts or events that are prevented from reaching consciousness.

The process of repeating information over and over to maintain it in short-term memory is called _____.

Which of the following supports the principle of encoding specificity?

Your general knowledge of what you have learned so far in this course is called _____.

An assailant entered a classroom and attacked the professor during class! Of course, it was staged for a learning experience so the professor said, "What did he look like? I only noticed he was really tall," even though he was actually rather short. When questioned by the police, most students described the assailant as being really tall; this is known as the _______.

The serial position effect suggests that people will remember _____ items better than _____ items on a list.

When asked to recall the date of John Kennedy's assassination, Peter draws a blank; however, when asked whether it was October 24, 1962, November 22, 1963, or February 1, 1965, he correctly answers with the second of the choices. This example most clearly demonstrates the value of ______.

The memory system that stores sensory information while it "decides" whether to send it on to LTM is called _____ memory in the traditional memory model.

What are reasons offered in your text as to why we shape, rearrange, and distort our memories?

Memory tends to be _____.

Describe the role of each of the following brain structures in memory and list the type of memories that would be disrupted in the case of trauma to each structure: amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, cerebral cortex.

Research shows that introducing a time delay between the presentation of a list of words and a recall test impairs performance on recall of the end of the list. This finding can be interpreted as evidence for which theory of forgetting?

Distributed practice is a learning technique in which _____.

The lobe(s) that take(s) the heaviest hit in a TBI is/are the _______ lobe(s).