Exam 6: Memory

Short-term memories appear to be stored in the prefrontal cortex and the _________________ of the brain.

A.R.Luria studied an individual with phenomenal memory.A person with this type of memory is called a/an:

When given a list of items to remember,you are more likely to remember:

_______ is a strategy/are strategies for moving information from short-term to long-term memory.

Sarah can remember names of the first two people she was introduced to at Ted's party,and she can remember the name of the last person she met,but the names of the dozen or so people in between are gone.This is an example of the:

Which memory system has an unlimited capacity and can keep information for hours or decades?

The best place to take your biology exam to ensure good retrieval of biology concepts is in the:

Pezdek and colleagues have found that false memories are more likely to be formed for implausible false events than for plausible ones.

Researchers using MRI scanning have found that:

One task useful in testing short-term memory capacity is the digit-span test.

The best way to encode information into LTM in an organized and meaningful way is:

If ____________is like losing a document in the computer because of a power loss,__________ is like pushing the "save" key and having the document disappear instead of being stored.

In the 1950s,George Miller estimated the number of items that could be stored in short-term memory to be the magic number:

Pezdek and colleagues found that for a person to interpret thoughts and fantasies about false events as true memories:

If memory were like the sea,we could say that ______ is long-term memory,______ are the specific memories,and _______ are retrieval cues.

A patient's chart indicates he just had surgery to remove his hippocampus as a result of a tumour.What changes do you anticipate in the patient's memory functioning after the operation?

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Elaborative rehearsal is a way of transferring information from short-term memory into long-term memory by making that information meaningful in some way.

Suzy looks up from her lunch,realizing that Jacques has just said something to her.What was it? Oh,yes,he has just asked her if she wants to go the movies.Suzy's ability to retrieve what Jacques said is due to her ____________ memory.

Iconic memory allows the eye to fuse the images from each tiny movement of the eye into a smooth,continuous pattern.