Exam 6: Learning

One in every _____ people over the age of 65 suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

Memories of which a person is not consciously aware are called ______ memories.

Which stage in the information-processing model of memory has the smallest capacity?

Arturo studies by rewriting and rereading his class notes over and over again; this process is somewhat analogous to ______ rehearsal.

Knowing how to serve a badminton birdie is an example of a(n) ________ memory.

According to the encoding specificity principle:

The textbook describes the case of Henry Molaison, also known as H. M. After brain surgery, H. M could no longer create long-term memories. H. M. suffered from _____ amnesia.

Compared to alcohol intoxication, talking on a cell phone impairs driving to:

Junco and Cotten (2012) found a _____ correlation between college students' GPA and the amount of time they spend texting and using Facebook.

In the classic studies of the encoding specificity principle, participants recalled the words better on dry land, whether they had learned the words on land or underwater.

The textbook describes the case of Henry Molaison, also known as H. M. After brain surgery, H. M suffered severe memory loss. However, H. M. experienced greater difficulty encoding new memories than in retrieving old ones. H. M.'s _____ amnesia was more profound than his _____ amnesia.

"It's like riding a bike; once you know how, you don't forget." This adage suggests that procedural memories are often explicit.

The idea that memory reflects a blend of fact and fiction is called the:

One's culture probably has little effect on the nature of one's life memories.

_____ amnesia involves an inability to form new memories.

Scientists have isolated the hippocampus as the site of the engram.

Research has shown that flashbulb memories are often:

When the room is unused, Mona studies her history notes in the lecture hall in which she attends class. Mona is doing this in order to take advantage of the serial position effect.

Estelle remembers a night she was mugged and brutally beaten. This memory probably involves not only her hippocampus, but also her:

Jerome cannot open his term paper on his computer because the file has become corrupt. Kaci cannot find her term paper on her computer because of all the other documents she has stored on the hard drive. Jerome's failure to retrieve his paper is analogous to the _____ theory of forgetting, whereas Kaci's failure better resembles the _____ theory.