Exam 7: Memory

Explicit memory is ____.

When studying recall of verbal information, the serial position curves for younger and older subjects would most likely be ____.

Possibly because of damage to his ____, Kim Peek had difficulty learning new motor skills.

When you store information in your long-term memory according to its meaning, your brain is using ____ encoding.

After getting lost for the fourth time on your way to a date, you ask for instructions again and this time, as you are walking toward the restaurant, you repeat the directions to yourself over and over. You are using ____.

Which part of the brain appears to be most important in the processing of memories?

The first step in getting information into memory is ____.

Because of the surgical removal of his hippocampus, H.M. was unable to achieve ____.

Your understanding of what happens when you go to the dentist's office is an example of a ____.

According to the three-stages model of memory, ____.

When you attempt to remember the definition of implicit memory by repeating the definition over and over again, you are using ____ rehearsal.

Episodic memory is ____.

When you study for an exam, you are most likely engaging in the ____ function of memory.

Based upon research regarding gender and memory, it can be concluded that ____.

Sigmund Freud's theory of forgetting is called ____.

Describe Elizabeth Loftus's research and what it suggests about the accuracy of memory.

You have never paid attention to and cannot think of which wrist your professor wears her watch on (even if you remember many other things about her). Which function of memory has most likely failed you?

Declarative memories are most likely processed by the ____.

Describe the newer view of working memory compared to the three-stages model.

Bits of information stored in our memory are called ____.