Exam 12: Remembering and Forgetting

If your cortex was damaged,you could not:

In general,the earliest event that we have a memory for occurred when we were:

The reason that suggests that people forget information because other information gets in the way and blocks its retrieval is called:

Professor Wallace,who is notorious for her essay exams,was approached by a student who asked to retake the exam,but in a different form such as multiple choice.The student claimed that he knew and understood the material and he could demonstrate it better on a multiple-choice exam.Why would he make such a claim?

How does the drug propranolol,which is commonly used to treat high blood pressure,affect memory?

Factual information appears to be organized in:

Damage to the hypothalamus would negatively affect memory for nondeclarative information.

The fear associated with painful memories can be removed by using the drug propranolol.

If you get up in the morning remembering a wonderful dream,only to forget it as you go about the day's activities,you've experienced:

The retrieval of previously learned information with the assistance of no or very few external cues is called:

Mr.Nguyen witnesses a bank robbery.During the investigation,he was asked to report everything he remembered,without holding back anything.He also was asked to describe the crime from several viewpoints.The technique used to record Mr.Nguyen's statement is called:

You are reading an article online about a survey examining sexual behavior in adolescents.Based upon Module 12,what is the most serious concern you have about the survey's validity?

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

Mental reminders that are created when you form vivid mental images of information are called:

People can recognize faces of their own race better than faces of other races.

Retroactive interference involves interference that goes from new to old.

Nodes,according to the network theory of memory,are arranged in a:

A network hierarchy describes how memories are arranged.

Jorge is watching a show on television that describes how to fix car engines.He sees the host of the show using a specialized tool.Jorge thinks he knows what the tool is called.Based on the research cited in the module,what part of the brain is showing maximal neural activity as he thinks of the specialized tool?

If you let your memory flow freely,you will find that one memory triggers another memory,which triggers another.How would the network theory explain this?