Exam 7: Memory

Cheryl meets her fiancé's family and wants to remember their names. To do this, she repeats their names over and over again in her mind. What is this process called?

What do we call the initial form of memory that picks up information from our environment and holds it in a "raw" form for a few seconds?

Through research on the brain, which of the following is known to play a critical role in encoding new episodic memories?

Kasey is having trouble learning French because she finds that having learned Spanish earlier interferes with the language currently being learned. What memory problem is she experiencing?

Which of the following areas of the brain appears to be most related to memory functioning?

What do we call the fading of memory traces from short-term memory?

Of the different types of memory, the longest duration is found within ____________________.

What is the name for various methods that help store and retrieve information by providing organization for encoding?

Nia was sexually assaulted a few years ago. According to Freudian theory, what is preventing her from remembering the event?

Which of the following is a type of long-term memory?

By which process do we retain information in our memory by placing it in a relatively permanent"depository" for future use?

Which of the following is NOT likely to cause cue-dependent forgetting?

How are short-term memories most often encoded?

Long-term memory (LTM) is best described by which of the following statements?

Explain the process of encoding, storage, and retrieval.

Of the different types of memory, the shortest duration belongs to ____________________.

Which of the following statements applies to short-term memory (STM)?

What do we call the processing of information into a usable form that can be stored in memory?

What is one of the first ways in which forgetting may occur?

Our sensory memory briefly holds auditory stimuli as which of the following?