Exam 6: Memory

When a person's ____________is damaged or removed,anterograde amnesia,or the inability to form new memories,results.

What are the five primary tastes?

A research study found that if you study on land,you do better when tested on land,and if you study underwater,you do better when tested underwater.This finding is an example of:

When people hear a sound,their ears turn the vibrations in the air into neural messages from the auditory nerve,which makes it possible for the brain to make sense of the sound.This process is called:

Decay theory works well to explain forgetting in:

The mental process of converting sensory information into neural impulses is called:

Which memory system provides us with a very brief representation of all the stimuli present at a particular moment?

_________________ is the tendency for older or previously learned material to interfere with the retrieval of newer,more recently learned material.

You are out for a drive with the family and are lucky enough to get a window seat.The rapidly passing scenery you see out the window is first stored in _____________ memory.

When given a list of items to remember,people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list than the middle of the list.This is known as the ______ effect.

It's Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together.You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother.Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other.This argument is an example of:

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older information,this is called proactive interference.