Exam 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday

Modality-specific memory stores retain input from only one sense.

Recalling the definition of long-term memory is an example of ________.

Consistent with reality monitoring, if Wanda is paying particular attention to the perceptual detail of her surroundings, then she will find it is easier to distinguish actual memories from false ones.

Before you retrieve a memory, you are not probably not consciously aware of it. Once you retrieve it, however, you are aware of it. This difference between memories we are aware of and the ones we are not is evidence for __________________.

Proactive interference as used in the study of memory refers to when _____________.

Modality-specific memory stores retain input from ________.

Under what conditions might recognition become increasingly difficult in the context of taking an exam?

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 ______.

In the Bower (1972) research described in your text, the difference between the intentional learning condition and the incidental leaning condition was ________.

The key difference between the pegword system and the method of loci is that, in the pegword system, instead of ________.

A display of 12 letters is flashed on a screen in front of you followed by a tone. You attempt to recall a portion of the display based on the specific tone you heard. What aspect of your memory is this experiment designed to assess?

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. His memory of things at the start of the list demonstrates the ____________.

Using the partial report method, Sperling found the capacity of iconic memory to be around _____________.

When Tiger Woods has a certain "feel" for how hard to putt the ball (touch memory) depending on the slope and distance to the hole, he is utilizing his ________ memory.

Declarative memories are to ________ memories as nondeclarative memories are to __________ memories.

A well-learned response that is carried out automatically when the appropriate stimulus is present is called (a) ________.

Production of noradrenaline in the brain is associated with ________.

Maria finds that it is easier to remember her student ID number if she thinks of it in segments, such as the first three digits, then the next two, and then the final four. Each of these short segments of the number are called ________.

Memories for general facts and personal information are called _________.

Your text authors discuss the case of "S." who had extraordinary memory skills. How did his memory affect his life?