Exam 8: Memory

In a matching test of neurotransmitters and their functions,you must match the list of neurotransmitters (on the left)to their functions (on the right).You are completing a:

The spreading activation model proposes that we form links between concepts because of their evolutionary significance.

Information in long-term memory is first integrated in the ____________ and then is transferred for permanent storage.

Your memory for how to get dressed is a ____________ memory.

Matthew is shown a list of the 12 cranial nerves.Twenty seconds later,he can list them all and in the correct order.Matthew most likely:

The amount of information held in short-term memory can be expanded through the process of ____________.

Victims of sexual molestation sometimes cannot remember having been violated.This observation supports Freud's idea of:

When we experience a "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon,we generally remember about half the items we are trying to recall within:

When you file your dental insurance correspondence in a folder marked "Financial: Insurance" and then file the folder alphabetically among hundreds of other folders,you are using a system most analogous to:

Information can be "renewed" in short-term memory through the process of:

Memory for which of the following is an example of an episodic memory?

Donald Hebb called the biological basis of learning and memory ____________.

You studied Child and Adolescent Psychology last semester.This semester,you are studying Developmental Psychology.Compared to friends who only took Child and Adolescent Psychology,you notice you're forgetting much of what you learned in Child and Adolescent Psychology.What best explains your forgetting?

Ellis cannot remember the name of the manager who interviewed him for a job yesterday.He thinks it starts with a "G" and sounds something like "Gorgie" or "Gormet." What is Ellis experiencing?

If you organize the number "23571113" as the prime numbers "235-71-113," you are improving your short-term memory retention by taking advantage of:

____________ theory states that memory traces fade over time.

In the serial position effect,items at the end of a list are recalled because they:

According to Freud,motivated forgetting typically results from:

The ____________ method of memory testing requires subjects to choose correct information from several alternatives.

Imagine that you are playing with your dog.You throw the dog a small red ball.He catches it in his mouth and dashes to another room where he hides it in his favorite hiding place.When he returns,you tell him,"Bring me the ball." He leaves and returns with the ball in his mouth.If you apply this example to stage theory of memory,your dog bringing you the ball from its hiding place would be analogous to: