Exam 7: Memory

According to the encoding specificity principle, you should ____.

Maintenance rehearsal involves ____ processing and elaborative rehearsal involves ____ processing.

Sometimes long-term memory storage has been described as creating a path such as in a field of grass, with constant use of the path keeping the memory active. Using the field analogy, forgetting would occur when the path begins to disappear due to lack of use. This describes the ____ theory of forgetting.

Retrograde amnesia is to ____ as anterograde amnesia is to ____.

Alfredo suffered brain damage and is now unable to learn new motor skills. Where in the brain is the likely site of Alfredo's brain damage?

If you were trying to store a list of single-digit numbers in your short-term memory, about how many should you be able to store on average?

Procedural memory is linked to the ____.

Suppose you prepare for your test on memory by relating the information to your grandfather's memory problems due to Alzheimer's disease. In this case, you are using ____ rehearsal.

The two subtypes of declarative memory are ____.

If you had damage to your hippocampus, it is most likely that you would have difficulty with ____.

Which tip is discussed in the textbook for improving your memory?

Based on Elizabeth Loftus's research on eyewitness memory, if you witnessed a car accident and then one day later read a detailed account of it in the newspaper, more than likely, your memory of the accident would ____.

A person who has lost the ability to form new declarative memories has ____ amnesia.

Females tend to be better than males at recalling ____ memories.

Elaborative rehearsal involves trying to store something in long-term memory by ____.

A person without iconic memory probably would not be able to remember anything that he or she ____.

Jenny has recently married and taken her husband's last name. To her dismay, her friends from high school keep calling her by her maiden name despite her repeated requests to use her married name. Jenny's friends appear to be experiencing ____.

One of the functions of the central executive component of memory is to ____.

When threatening memories are made inaccessible, ____ has occurred.

The hippocampus is to ____ memory as the cerebellum is to ____ memory.