Exam 10: Memory

In addressing the debate regarding children's memories of sexual abuse, it has become clear that:

Which component of memory has been referred to as a "leaky bucket?"

Auditory images remain in sensory memory for about:

Alexander Luria told of the journalist, S., who could remember the exact circumstances under which he learned memory after memory. From the story of S. we can conclude that a near-perfect memory:

Accurate encoding of information would be most likely to take place AUTOMATICALLY when:

A long-lasting increase in the strength of synaptic responsiveness is called long-term potentiation.

________ occurs when instead of encoding just the physical or sensory features of the information, the meaning of information is analyzed.

Which of the following is a procedural memory?

In order to help her music students learn the lines of the treble clef in musical notation, the teacher has them learn the sentence "Every Good Boy Does Fine." This is an example of:

________ is an internal representation of a personally experienced event and the context in which it occurred.

In ________ memory, information becomes available without any conscious effort; in ________ memory, one makes a conscious effort to recover the information.

Meara is a participant in a memory study in which slides of a traffic accident are shown. Some participants viewed slides with yield signs and others viewed slides with stop signs. Meara, who had seen a yield sign, was in the experimental condition. How were the memories of the experimental group manipulated? How will Meara respond when she is told the purpose of the study? What implications does this study have for the replacement model of forgetting?

Amnesia can be organic, resulting from ________ or psychogenic, resulting from ________.

Information in long-term memory can be organized by all of the following EXCEPT:

When researchers investigated organization in long-term memory, they found that:

Which of the following does NOT facilitate confabulation?

After befriending a drunken millionaire, Charlie Chaplin is surprised when the man doesn't recognize him the next day. In the evening, as the millionaire begins drinking again, Charlie is greeted as a pal. This episode from City Lights was used in the text to illustrate:

Human patients who have damage in the hippocampus cannot be classically conditioned to blink their eyes in response to a tone.

The formation of short-term memories and long-term memories involves the same chemical and structural changes at the level of the neurons.

The authors note that the most important lesson to be learned from the research on memory is that: