Exam 9: Memory

Ashley was telling her friend about a movie she saw last night when she realized she could not remember the lead actor's name. She could only remember that it began with a B. This is an example of

Which statement is consistent with the conclusion from Sperling's study of sensory memory?

Memory, as a general construct, is best defined as

In the board game Trivial Pursuit, players answer questions of general knowledge. To play the game, players tap into _______ memory.

A synapse in the brain whose strength depends on how likely it is to cause the postsynaptic cell to fire is called a _______ synapse.

An instructor gives her students a list of terms to memorize for their biology exam and immediately asks one student to recite the terms back to her. Which terms will this student most likely recall from the list?

You are asked to participate in an experiment that attempts to replicate the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus. What might the researcher instruct you to do?

The details of experiments on the misinformation effect provide evidence against the therapeutic interpretation of _______.

Imagine that you know someone who developed a tumor that affected his or her ability to form new long-term memories. Though many parts of the brain are involved with memory, the part of the brain most likely affected by the tumor is the

It can be relatively easy to relay information stored in _______ memory because it can be described using words. In contrast, memories for how to ride a bike or drive a car, called _______ memories, are much more difficult to describe.

An instructor gives her students a list of terms to memorize for their biology exam. After allowing the students three minutes to look over the list, she asks one student to recite the terms back to her, from memory. What information will this student likely be able to recall from the list?

Patient H.M., whose hippocampi and medial temporal lobes were removed, suffered from

Our knowledge of facts, such as the year that President Kennedy was shot or the fact that Paris is a city in France, is collectively called _______ memory.

What is the simplest way to retain information in short-term memory?

An important distinction between declarative and nondeclarative memory is that only declarative memories can be

Which scenario represents the concept of rehearsal?

Information stored in the sensory buffer is retained

Short-term memory is sometimes referred to as working memory because

The results of experiments in which participants viewed ambiguous figures with verbal labels, then drew the figures from memory, showed that

Failure of animals to perform well on the non-matching-to-sample task resulted from a combination of lesions to the hippocampus and the _______ lobes.