Exam 7: Memory

A principle that seems to underlie the three-stages model of memory is that ____.

In the three-stages model of memory, the briefest stage of memory is ____.

Of all the theories attempting to explain why we forget, the one that is most controversial is ____.

To the extent that females have better recall of childhood events than males, research suggests this is due to the females' greater use of factual elaboration in their____ .

Implicit memory is ____.

When Felipe goes to the grocery store, his wife usually tells him to get about three specific items. However, with advancing age, his ability to remember the items in his head is decreasing. If he still prefers to use his memory rather than writing the items down, which strategy will be most effective?

Drugs that stimulate neural growth and development of the hippocampus would most likely benefit ____ memory.

Suppose the information you learn in your psychology class about the brain is associated in your mind with information you had previously learned in your human biology class. Then your long-term memory of the psychology information has most likely been stored through ____ encoding.

Brain researchers looking at a PET scan of a person completing an implicit memory task should expect to see blood flow changes ____.

One of the reasons why the middle items in a long list of items are less likely to be accurately recalled than items at the beginning and the end of the list is because the middle items ____.

Your memory of your first date is an example of a(n) ____.

The limited capacity of short-term memory may be due to how neurons in the ____ code and store information.

Describe the traditional three-stages memory model.

PET scans show that blood flow in the normal brain is higher in the ____ hippocampal region during ____ memory tasks.

Based on Elizabeth Loftus's research on eyewitness memory, even if eyewitnesses are paid money for accurate eyewitness accounts, ____.

Damage to the ____ of the brain is most likely to result in a person developing anterograde amnesia.

Information in your memory that you store as a generalized knowledge structure about all the groups of people who attend your school is likely organized in the form of ____.

Recall is to ____ as recognition is to ____.

Your mother's apparently very vivid memory of where she was and what she was doing when she found out that the World Trade Center had been hit by an airplane is an example of a(n) ____.

Roberto has not thought of his third-grade teacher in over 40 years. According to decay theory, the memory trace for his teacher should be ____.