Exam 5: Section 2: Memory: Living With Yesterday

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 end of the list demonstrates the ____________.

The first step in the memory process is _____________ information in a form that the memory system can use.

Retrograde amnesia is to anterograde amnesia as ________.

Distributed practice in studying means to ________.

Memories for general facts and personal information are called _________.

Ebbinghaus found that information is forgotten ____________.

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

The famous case of H.M.pertains to an individual who had severe memory loss once his hippocampus was removed.However, he still had a form of ________.

People tend to forget negative affect associated with autobiographical memories more quickly than they forget positive affect.What enhances this effect?

Loni is asked to memorize the letters I K T E A L N in no particular order.She memorizes them by reorganizing them into the words INK and LATE.This tactic is called ______.