Exam 7: Memory

Research shows that flies bred to have an excess of CREB exhibited ________.

________, the retention of memory over time, is the third stage of long-term memory formation.

From the list that Jill made for a shopping trip to the grocery store, she could recall only the items in the beginning and in the end of a list. This is an example of ________.

Which of the following best describes the function of the visuospatial sketchpad?

The ________ cortex is located in the parietal lobes.

Which of the following is a protein that switches on the genes responsible for the development of new synapses?

Matthew can walk on his hands. He does not remember how he learned to do it, and he cannot explain to others how he does it. Matthew's skill of walking on hands is characteristic of ________.

Jacques wants to remember a phone number, and he repeats it aloud until he types and saves the number in his cell phone. He is using the process of ________.

________ is a kind of implicit memory that occurs when recall is improved by prior exposure to the same or similar stimuli.

"ROY G. BIV" is an example of a(n) ________ that helps one remember the colors of the rainbow-red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

For which state of long-term memory formation is sleep vital?

Of the following, ________ occurs mostly in the cerebral cortex.

In the context of brain stimulation and memory, identify a finding of research on transcranial direct current stimulation.

One's inability to remember the name of a person only minutes after meeting her, even if one repeats her name immediately after hearing it, is a common ________ problem.

Tara worked late one night. Next morning, when leaving for work, she started searching for her car keys frantically as she could not find them. She then started tracing the things she did the previous night after she entered her home to remember where she kept the keys. Which of the following steps of memory formation was Tara most likely relying on?

The main explanation for the ________ effect is that the items at the beginning of a list are quickly rehearsed and transferred to long-term memory storage.

Chelsea is trying to learn Spanish. However, she is finding it difficult to learn Spanish because of her tendency to apply English grammar to the Spanish language. This is an example of ________.

Deidre has a list of medicines she needs to buy from the drugstore. She quickly goes through the list and, believing she has memorized it, leaves the list behind when she steps out of her home. When she reaches the drugstore, however, she can only recall the names of the first few and the last few medicines on the list. Deidre's inability to recall the names of the medicines in the middle of the list is an example of ________.

In the context of the types of memory, which of the following statements is true of short-term memory?

In the context of the types of memory, identify a characteristic of working memory.