Exam 34: Memory: Forgetting

Clive cannot remember if someone has been in his room just 15 minutes earlier and had a conversation with him.Although Clive is able to carry on a normal conversation with you,he cannot make the transfer from short-term to long-term memory.Clive must have damage to his

When new learning disrupts the ability to recall past,stored information,which of the following has occurred?

Having used English grammar for the first seventeen years of your life causes initial problems as you attempt to learn Spanish grammar.This problem is best explained by

Learning to balance and ride a bicycle prior to learning to ride a motorcycle is an example of

Eric Kandel found that learning altered the amount of

Many people remember happy,positive events better than disappointments and irritations.This difference would best be explained by

Regarding meaningful material,if one can remember 70 percent of this material after three years,then he or she should remember what percent of this information after 20 years?

José studies,stays awake for eight hours,then sleeps for eight hours.Santos studies,then sleeps eight hours,and is then awake for eight hours.Santos will remember more than José because Santos experienced more of which of the following before the interference began?

New memories either alter existing memory traces or make it harder to "locate" earlier memories,according to which explanation of forgetting?

As a visitor to England,you as an American,have difficulty remembering to drive on the left side of the road as they do and to look in the opposite way before crossing the street.This illustrates

After memorization,most forgetting tends to occur

Which of the following processes is like writing your name in wet concrete,that is,once the concrete is set,the information (your name)is fairly lasting,but while it is setting,it can be wiped out (amnesia)or scribbled over (interference)?

Kasey is having trouble learning French because she finds that having learned Spanish earlier makes it more difficult for her to now learn French.This is known as

Pauline's flashbulb memories of her children's births were caused by these exciting and stressful experiences heightening the activity in the limbic system of her brain,which intensified the formation of long-term memories through the process known as

Regarding forgetting,which of the following statements is FALSE?

Virginia finds her old high school yearbook in the attic.As she looks at the pictures,a flood of seemingly lost memories return.The photographs in this yearbook served as

After a long flight,a very tired Mark rented a car at the airport and drove to a nearby motel.The next morning,when he went to the parking lot,he could not remember what make,model,or color car he had rented.Mark's forgetting illustrates

The forgetting of past failures,upsetting childhood events,the names of people you dislike,or appointments you do not want to keep is most likely caused by

You are trying to remember a short list of letters,numbers,or words after seeing or hearing them once.If it takes you more than four to six seconds to repeat the list,you will forget some of the items due to

If the stimuli associated with the memory are missing when the time comes to retrieve the information,which of the following often occurs?