Exam 7: Memory

The day Roxanne graduated from college is one of the most important days of her life. The memory of the day will stay with her forever. However, before the memories of the day can be stored in her long-term memory, information about her graduation day will first have to be temporarily stored in the ________.

Diah says, "I know his name! He's married to that famous actress, and he was in all those action movies! His name begins with an A! …I just cannot remember it!" Diah is experiencing ________.

Of the following, ________ is the first processing stage in long-term memory formation.

Serena, a woman in her early 30s, can remember events from every day of her life as far back as her teenage years. She can accurately recall where she was and what she was doing on any given day with high accuracy. In the context of long-term memory, Serena's ability to recall memories is characteristic of ________.

In the levels-of-processing model of memory and recall, which of the following is the stage of midlevel processing?

________ interference occurs when new experiences or information causes people to forget previously learned experiences or information.

Which of the following is true about storage as a processing stage in long-term memory?

The participants in a study on memory are given a long list of household products to memorize within an hour. At the end of the hour, one group of participants is asked to recall the products immediately, and most of them can recall up to 90 percent of the items on the list. The other group of participants is asked to recall the list after two days, and most of them can only recall around 50 percent of the items on the list. In the context of forgetting and memory loss, the results of this study demonstrate ________.

In the context of short-term memory, the process of breaking down a list of items to be remembered into a smaller set of meaningful units is known as ________.

To remember his friend's home address, Lester recites it out aloud to himself repeatedly until he can recall it perfectly. In the context of storing memories, Lester is ________.

Sana can easily recall almost everything she learned at school about water bodies on earth. She remembers the names of the major rivers in the United States, as well as the names of the major seas and oceans in the world. In the context of long-term memory, Sana's ability to recall geographic facts that she learned at school is an example of ________.

In the context of memory distortion, ________ occurs when information learned after the original event (crime) is wrong or misleading but gets incorporated into the memory as true.

The re­peated firing of neural impulses necessary to convert a short-term memory into a long-term one occurs mostly in the ________.

To remember the four bases found in DNA-thymine, guanine, adenine, and cytosine-Luke makes up a sentence using the first letter from each base as the first letters for his words, repeating to himself, "The Girl Ate Cookies." Which of the following did Luke use in this scenario?

Which cortex is located in the temporal lobes?

The second stage of long-term memory formation is ________.

________ is the unconscious act of keeping threatening thoughts, feelings, or impulses out of consciousness.

Which of the following statements is true about transcranial direct current stimulation?

Which of the following is true about encoding as a processing stage in long-term memory?

In the context of the levels-of-processing approach to memory, identify one of the findings of research conducted on recall.