Exam 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday

Your textbook suggests remembering someone's name by visualizing some activity between that new person and someone you already know with that name. This illustrates how________ can improve memory.

In general, how do the memory stores differ?

Why does emotion boost memory?

Mateo is 70 years old and had a stroke last year. He is now unable to remember how to get to and return from his new doctor's office using a specific route. What brain structure was potentially damaged by Mateo's stroke?

You start out using Firefox, then change to Internet Explorer because your company demands that browsers be Microsoft products. If you have trouble with Internet Explorer, it is most likely due to ______________.

Flashbulb memories ______.

The crucial difference between having a "good" memory and having a "bad" memory among most people is ________.

Retrieval is the process of __________________.

Portions of the frontal lobes are activated when people encode new information.

People differ in the amount of information they can chunk.

One aspect of sensory memory that distinguishes it from other types of memory is that __________________.

The basic idea and rationale behind the study of "knockout mice" is that ________.

The depth of processing concept of Craik and Lockhart would suggest that which of the following questions would lead to better memory of the word frog?

You can combine numbers and images to remember lists of words. For example, you can generate an image of the word and associate it with a numbered item on a list you already know. This is an example of ________.

Which of the following distinguishes sensory memory (SM) from short-term memory (STM)?

A police officer is shot in a gun battle with bank robbers. Although emergency brain surgery saves his life, it leaves him unable to store new information. The officer's family is applying to the state for compensation for his injuries. When asked to provide a diagnosis of the difficulties he suffers, what will they write?

What is the key difference between explicit and implicit memories?

General knowledge, language, and concepts are seen as parts of ___________.

A man known as H. M. lost the ability to form new memories after an operation removed portions of his ____________.

Remembering your first day of college classes is an example of ________ memories.