Exam 8: The Development of Memory

Implicit ___ memory refers to unconscious memories that are indexed by changes in performance.

The frontal lobes and ___ temporal lobe structures like the hippocampus are important for explicit memory.

___ ordering is a critical measure of explicit recall, for example whether children can reproduce modeled events in sequence.

The function of autobiographical memory changes with age. Younger children discuss their past to understand their role within the family, older children do this to cement relationships with ___

Infantile ___ refers to the absence of episodic/autobiographical memories before the age of about 3 years.

Each script is an abstract knowledge structure that represents the temporal and causal sequences of events in very specific ___

Bauer and Mandler (1989) showed that ___ relations are an important organizing principle for episodic memories.

The ___ gyrus, a specialized area for the perceptual learning of faces, may also be important in the general acquisition of expertise.

In Newcombe and Fox's experiment (1995), children showed a ___ skin response to pictures of familiar classmates even when they lacked explicit memory for them.

An ___ maternal interaction style may facilitate children's development of organized and detailed event memories.

According to Nelson, younger children concentrate on remembering ___ at the expense of novel events.

There are developmental changes in the ___ and extent of explicit recall.

Working memory is a limited capacity "workspace" that maintains information ___

Experts and novices is a domain of knowledge can be distinguished by differences in ___ as well as age.

Leading questions tend to increase children's errors of ___ (agreeing to things that had not happened).

The "word ___ effect" refers to difficulty in retaining long words (e.g. bicycle) in short term memory as compared to short words (e.g. egg).

In adults, episodic memory it is organized around "scripts" or "___" for routine events.

The phonological ___ effect refers to the effect that similar-sounding words are more difficult to remember than words that sound different.

Explicit or ___ memory refers to types of memories that can be brought consciously and deliberately to mind.

In the ___ completion task for implicit memory, participants are shown a series of letters like "CH-Y" and asked to complete it.