Exam 9: Memory

One property of the central executive mechanism proposed by Baddeley and Hitch is that it

The memory performance of patients K.F. and E.E., when compared to the memory performance of people with amnesia, such as patient H.M, demonstrates a double dissociation between two types of memory. Which of the following statements best describes these results?

Organizing individual bits of information into higher-order units can increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory. This strategy is called

Which of the following is NOT an area of cortex in the medial temporal lobe that interacts with the hippocampus in the formation of new long-term memories?

The component that is responsible for acoustically coding information in working memory is the

Which of the following best describes a component of the multiple trace theory?

People with amnesia often show preserved implicit learning and nondeclarative memory.

Define each of the three major stages of learning.

Declarative or explicit memory is knowledge that

One major difference between the visual icon and the auditory echo is that the

Most forms of classical conditioning can be considered declarative memory.

Herpes simplex encephalitis shares which characteristic with semantic dementia?

Implicit memory is to ________ as explicit memory is to ________.

Under the standard consolidation theory, the involvement of the hippocampus in accessing memories is best described as

Semantic memory is a kind of declarative memory that concerns events we recall from our own lives.