Exam 10: Memory

For many Canadians, the date 1867 is one chunk but the date 1923 is four chunks.

A fill-in-the-blank quiz of psychology terms would test for recall of the terms.

The connectionist model of memory differs from the three-box model in its emphasis on ________ processing.

Sensory memory holds multiple sensory images just long enough for us to see a "double exposure" and know that the scene we are viewing is accurate.

Craig listens intently to the lyrics of a new song and translates them into new memories. The process that allows Craig to form new memories for the song lyrics is called:

Maintenance rehearsal is defined as:

The ________ is involved in the formation of declarative long-term memories.

Memory is like:

The hippocampus is involved in the formation of short-term memories.

________ is defined as forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar, more recently stored, material.

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

Memory researchers have suggested that ________ may have evolutionary significance because they were adaptive in human survival.

When you recall the days of the week, you are relying on ________ memory.

Information is organized and indexed in short-term memory.

During short-term memory tasks, areas of the ________ are especially active.

In contrast to temporary changes associated with sensory memory, short-term memory involves lasting structural changes in the brain.

For most Canadians, the acronym RCMP consists of ________ informational chunk(s).

Beginning in the 1990s, controversy arose regarding the accuracy of long-buried memories of sexual abuse. Freud would explain this as an example of a repressed memory that later is brought to conscious awareness. What does the evidence say about repression?

You hear a song that you know on the radio. If asked to give the name of the song and the artist's name, you are answering a ________ question.

Explicit memory is usually measured through a recall method or a recognition method.