Exam 7: Memory

You are engrossed in your favorite TV show in the living room. Your roommate yells for you to bring a flyswatter to the kitchen. Vaguely aware that a request is being made of you, you ask your roommate to repeat herself. Before she can reply, however, the sound of the words, "bring a flyswatter to the kitchen," play through your mind. This is an example of ________ memory.

People adapt very quickly to the procedures and behaviors that are appropriate in a church setting. The general knowledge of how to behave in church is called a

Kim was telling her friend about her most recent trip to her grandmother's house, but was having trouble remembering certain details. Later that month she visited her grandmother again and the details came flooding back. This is an example of

Implicit memory, procedural memory, and priming are all associated with ________ memory.

According to Baddeley, ________ and ________ assist the central executive.

According to the serial position effect, if you are a waiter trying to remember all the orders for a table of seven, you should pay particular attention to the ________ orders.

Short-term memory has a ________ capacity than sensory memory and a ________ duration.

In the Chowchilla, California kidnapping case, school children were kidnapped at gunpoint and buried for 16 hours before escaping. Several years after the event, a child psychiatrist interviewed the children. She reported that

According to the schema theory of memory, memories are

Akira Haraguchi demonstrated an amazing memory ability when he recited all 80,000 digits of pi. What process in the human memory system did he utilize?

Detectives take advantage of context-dependent memory by

Parallel distributed processing is the theory that memory is stored throughout the brain in connections among neurons.

In college, I smelled Lysol brand cleaner in a building and immediately had a vivid, happy memory from my early childhood (age 3-5 in this case) of coming home to a bright, sunny kitchen where my grandmother was cleaning. What does your text say about the sense of smell relative to memory? How is smell different from the other senses and what do these differences mean?

After hearing a friend's telephone number for the first time, you are able to recite back to her all seven digits in perfect order. This feat is made possible by your

Which of the following is NOT a study tip that focuses on the encoding process?

The memory of your mom reading you the "Cat in the Hat" each night is called ________ memory.

Your mom is always giving you grief about how you surf the web and send text messages while you are studying. You explain that multitasking does not affect your grades. Is your position supported by the information presented in the textbook?

Retrograde amnesia involves the inability to remember the past.

Encoding failure occurs when

Eyewitness accounts of crimes are